Prosecutors of the Office of the Attorney General have sent an indictment to the court regarding the former Minister of Internal Affairs of Ukraine, his deputy, the acting head of the capital's police, and the head of the public security police of the capital, who organized the use of violence and illegal detentions of participants in protest actions in Kyiv, Cherkasy, and Sumy.

According to the investigation, the former Minister and his deputy developed a criminal plan from November 2013 to February 2014 to obstruct and suppress protest actions. They involved former leaders of the capital's police and the Cherkasy and Sumy regional police departments, who organized illegal actions against the participants of the protests by their subordinate employees. They illegally detained 117 citizens, used violence against them, and inflicted bodily harm on the victims. The detainees were taken to district police departments, where investigators, based on falsified documents, brought innocent people to criminal responsibility for allegedly participating in mass riots and initiated the application of preventive measures in the form of detention by the courts.

The actions of the accused have been qualified under part 2 of Article 28, Article 340, part 3 of Article 27, part 2 of Article 28, part 2 of Article 365, part 3 of Article 27, part 2 of Article 28, and part 3 of Article 371 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine.

The former head of the capital's police will also be tried for collaborationist activities – voluntarily taking a position in 2023 in the illegally formed "security agencies" of the Russian Federation in the temporarily occupied territories of Ukraine.

Since the accused have been hiding from law enforcement agencies for a long time in the territory of the aggressor state, a special pre-trial investigation (in absentia) has been conducted against them.

The pre-trial investigation in the criminal proceedings was carried out by investigators of the State Bureau of Investigations under the procedural guidance of prosecutors from the Office of the Attorney General and operational support from the Department of Internal Security of the National Police.

It should be noted that indictments regarding the organization of these crimes in Cherkasy and Sumy against former police leaders of these regions are currently under consideration in the courts.

Note: According to Article 62 of the Constitution of Ukraine, a person is considered innocent of committing a crime and cannot be subjected to criminal punishment until their guilt is proven in a lawful manner and established by a guilty verdict of the court.