The OGP carries out a procedural guide to a pre -trial investigation. Information was included in the unified register of pre -trial investigations, criminal proceedings are carried out under paragraphs 11, 12 of part 2 of article 115 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine (intentional murder under aggravating circumstances).
The other questions of the Union of the Spanish investigation, the priority versions of the commission of the crime, etc., did not answer the Office of the Prosecutor General, noting that such information is the secret of the pre -trial investigation.
“Disclosure of information about the personality, the actual circumstances of possible criminal offenses that are checked during the pre -trial investigation … of the procedural actions in them, can cause significant harm to a further pre -trial investigation by disclosing the secrets of pre -trial investigation, which threatens the interests of the state in the form of a justice and maintaining the law, to entail significant harm to the regulation and the rights of persons who did not consent to disclosure of data about themselves and whose rights are limited in connection with criminal prosecution, ”the prosecutor's office said.
According to law enforcement officers, the harm from the publication of such information prevails over public interest in receiving it.
On May 29, UP reported that Spain refused to create a joint working group initiated by Ukraine to investigate the murder of Portnov. Spanish investigators do not exclude the version of the “trace of the Ukrainian special services”, suggested the source of the publication. According to their version, initiating participation in the investigation, Kyiv tried to access the materials of the investigation, phone numbers and other Portnov gadgets, which may contain sensitive information for the Ukrainian side.
The body of the murdered politician was going to return to Ukraine.
Context
Portnova Killed In Spain in the morning of May 21. He was shot near an elite school in Madrid, into which he brought children. The media wrote that a group of people could make an attack. They fired five shots and disappeared from the crime scene. The Spanish police suggested that the murder of Portnov could be associated with the war in Ukraine. Investigators also consider the version of information related to organized crime.
Portnov was an adviser to Yanukovych, who escaped from the country, and was responsible for the legal support of his activities. From April 2010 to April 2011, he was deputy head of AP, and in January – February 2014 – the first deputy head of AP. After the revolution of dignity, Portnov went abroad, he to Ukraine He returned in May 2019. In June 2022, Portnov again left Ukraine.
Since December 2021 Portnov Was under the sanctions of the United States. They were introduced against the former deputy head of the AP For bribery in the court and law enforcement devices of Ukraine, the use of its influence for bribery in Ukrainian courts, as well as for “undermining the reform efforts.” He was called the “gray cardinal” of the judiciary of Ukraine. Portnov, as recalls “BBC News Ukrainian”, under the presidency of Yanukovych, was actually the ideologist of the judicial and legal reform of those times, influenced the country's judicial system. This influence, as the media experts surveyed say, he retained later.
“Ukrainian Pravda”, citing sources, wrote that Portnov visited Ukraine a few days before his murder in Madrid. The Unitary Enterprise also reported that during this trip he met with the deputy head of the presidential office Oleg Tatarov and the director of the GBR Alexei Sukhachev.
