The case of Katia Handziuk’s murder has been significantly delayed in court ever since Ruslan Kravchenko became Prosecutor General.
This was written on Facebook by lawyer and veteran Masi Nayem.
“After the latest news, it’s clear why”, – he added.
Most likely, this concerns the selection by the Council of Prosecutors of Ukraine of the spokesperson of the National Association of Advocates of Ukraine, Oleksiy Shevchuk, to the competition commission for choosing the leadership of the Specialized Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office.
Since 2019, Shevchuk defended Vladyslav Manger, later he was the lawyer of Illia Kiva, who wanted to take Manger on bail.
“Shevchuk was the defender of a number of NABU case figures and other notorious persons, such as Onyshchenko, Dubnevych, Rozenblat, Bakhmatiuk, Kryukova”, – the Anti-Corruption Action Center reminded.
Shevchuk is a subject of a journalistic investigation into the smuggling of men abroad through the “Shlyakh” system. According to NGL journalists, through the so-called “Shevchuk group” more than 200 men of conscription age left and did not return.
At one time Shevchuk supported the “dictatorial laws of January 16” and hosted an authorial program on Medvedchuk’s channels.
In 2023, Shevchuk was stripped of his license due to violations of legal ethics. That same year his license had earlier been suspended for three months over an offensive post about veteran and lawyer Masi Nayem.
The appointment of Shevchuk to this commission, according to the Anti-Corruption Action Center, is at the very least illegal. It contradicts Part 3 of Article 28-1 of the Law of Ukraine “On the Prosecutor’s Office”, which stipulates that a member of such a commission must have an impeccable business reputation, high professional and moral qualities, public authority, and meet the integrity criterion.
The Anti-Corruption Action Center demands that Prosecutor General Ruslan Kravchenko bring the composition of the commission into compliance with the requirements of the law and cancel the appointment of Oleksiy Shevchuk as a member of the commission.
Shevchuk himself stated that a discrediting campaign had been launched against him, and he plans to sue over the actions of the “slanderers”.