Due to delays with Interpol's putting Viktor Yanukovych and other former high-ranking Ukrainian officials on the wanted list, two deputy prosecutor generals are currently in Lyon (France), the location of Interpol's headquarters, to settle these issues, Prosecutor General Vitaliy Yarema has said.
“A delegation of the Prosecutor General’s Office of Ukraine (PGO), two deputies are on a business trip to Brussels and Lyon. You know, a number of former officials haven’t been put on the international wanted list yet, and Interpol hasn’t published the so-called Red Notices for them, including for Viktor Yanukovych. Thus, I’ve sent deputy prosecutor generals to Lyon. They are investigating the circumstances [and] if the actions of the international organization [Interpol] are legal with regard to [its] failure to publish notices,” Yarema said at a press conference on Tuesday.
He also added that Red Notices hadn’t been published for Yanukovych or for former Interior Minister Vitaliy Zakharchenko and his former deputies.
“These are persons that have nothing to do with politics – they only committed crimes and organized them,” the prosecutor general said.
