“After the murder of Portnov, the Ukrainian side immediately came up with the initiative to create a group with the Spanish law enforcement officers to investigate the murder, but received a refusal. The fact is that the Spanish investigators do not exclude the version of the“ trace of the Ukrainian special services, ”the material says.
Sources of the publication in such activity from Ukraine see two versions. According to one of them, this is a desire to access the materials of the investigation, phone numbers and other Portnov gadgets, which may contain sensitive information for the Ukrainian side. According to the second version, the Ukrainian authorities are interested in conducting an early investigation and finding out all the circumstances of the murder.
Also, as the media writes, Spain still refuses to transfer the body of Portnov to Ukraine. It is noted that it can be conveyed at the beginning of next week.
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 returned to Ukraine 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 an ideologist of 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. She 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.
