Mikhail Saakashvili refuses to testify to Ukrainian law enforcers
When explaining his refusal to testify, the former President of Georgia said that the Security Service of Ukraine (known as SBU) has combined in one notice the summons for various investigative actions.
The "Caucasian Knot" has reported that on December 18, Mikhail Saakashvili came for interrogation to the General Prosecutor's Office of Ukraine, but refused to go inside the building. He has announced his intention to testify only to SBU investigators.
In Ukraine, Mikhail Saakashvili is suspected of attempted aiding and abetting members of criminal organizations and concealment of their criminal activities.
Today, the Ukrainian SBU has accepted the Mikhail Saakashvili's motion to postpone the investigative actions "in connection with the illegal combination of separate investigative actions in one day and in one summon on the call," Mikhail Saakashvili wrote on his page in Facebook.
Mikhail Saakashvili has got two kinds of summon: one about interrogation and another about taking samples of his voice for examination. However, the simultaneous carrying out of those investigative actions is "illegal," explained Ruslan Chernolutsky, an advocate of Mikhail Saakashvili.
The former President of Georgia has also said that he is preparing a lawsuit to be filed to the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) with a demand of compensation for his "kidnapping" by Ukrainian law enforcers, the "Ukrayinska Pravda" reports.
Full text of the article is available on the Russian page of 24/7 Internet agency ‘Caucasian Knot’.