The defense team of former president of Ukraine Viktor Yanukovych, accused for high treason, says the agreement on resolution of the crisis in Ukraine signed by Yanukovych on February 21, 2014 (during the Euromaidan mass protests) has disappeared.
The press service of the Aver Lex law firm announced this in a statement, Ukrainian News Agency reports.
"We were told that the original copy of the agreement on resolution of the crisis in Ukraine of 2014 had disappeared. We do not rule out that it was deliberately destroyed," reads the statement citing Yanukovych's lawyer Vitalii Serdiuk.
The defense team of Yanukovych applied to the Presidential Administration with a request to provide the wording of the agreement on resolution of the crisis in Ukraine, which was signed on February 21, 2014, by Yanukovych, Vitali Klitschko, Arseniy Yatsenyuk, Oleh Tiahnybok, and then foreign ministers of Germany, France, and Poland.
"Eventually we received an answer that the Presidential Administration does not have this document. The agreement is important evidence in all cases of Viktor Yanukovych and we do not exclude that the original copy of the document has been deliberately destroyed by people not interested in unveiling the core of the events of 2014," said Serdiuk.
The press service of the Aver Lex law firm publishes the answer of the Presidential Administration.
As Ukrainian News Agency earlier reported, the Obolonskyi District Court of Kyiv will continue the trial of former president of Ukraine Viktor Yanukovych on August 3.
Yanukovych is charged with high treason.
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