In Spain, they did not want to investigate the murder of Portnov and do not give his body – sources
Andriy Portnov, Photo: UP Collage
Spanish law enforcement officers refused to create a joint working group in investigation of the murder of a shadow curator of courts and approximately a lawyer of lawyer Andriy Portnov.
Literally: « After the murder of Portnov, the Ukrainian side immediately took the initiative to create a group with the Spanish law enforcement to investigate the murder, but received a refusal. The fact is that Spanish investigators do not reject the version of the Ukrainian special services. »
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Details: The UP sources interviewed in such activity by Ukraine see two versions, except for the killed of a Ukrainian citizen.
One of them is the desire to access the investigation materials, phones and other Portnov gadgets, which can contain sensitive information to the Ukrainian side.
According to the second version, the Ukrainian authorities, in particular in the person of the curator of the law enforcement system Oleg Tatarov, are interested in conducting a quick investigation and finding out all the circumstances of the murder.
In addition, the Spanish side still refuses to transfer the body of Portnov to Ukraine. « It is expected to happen early next week, » the publication says.
Reference: Portnov was the deputy chairman of the Presidential Administration for Viktor Yanukovych’s board in 2010-2014. He denied the crimes committed by the special forces fighters against the participants of the Dignity Revolution in the winter of 2013-2014, and fled from Ukraine. He Returned 2019 on the eve of the inauguration of the newly elected President Vladimir Zelensky. Portnova was also considered an influential « shadow » curator of Ukrainian courts.
In 2018, criminal proceedings were opened against Portnov under the article « State betrayal ». However, in 2019, Portnov in his Telegram channel stated that The SBU has closed the criminal case He also published relevant documents against him on charges of treason.
In 2019, investigators published films of conversations from the office of a maternity judge Pavel Vovk. From conversations on the films journalists reconstructedthat Portnov, together with the Wolf and the then Presidential Head of President, Andriy Bohdan, illegally influenced the dismissal of the chairman of the Constitutional Court Stanislav Shevchuk.
In April 2020, at the beginning of Irina Venediktova’s cadence as Prosecutor General Portnov blackmailed her, that he has a compromise about her illegal activity.
In the same 2020, at that time, acting director of the State Bureau of Investigation Alexander Sokolov recognizedthat law enforcement agencies have « influence groups » that told the secret of the investigation and important details of investigations to former officials, including Portnov.
In December 2021 it became known that The US Government applied sanctions Against the former Deputy Head of the Presidential Administration of Viktor Yanukovych Andrei Portnov and his charity foundation.
Portnov was 51 years old.
Prehistory: Portnova was shot dead in the morning of May 21 Near the American school in Spanish Madrid.
