The claim by Ukraine’s State Bureau of Investigations that its charges against Tetyana Chornovol are not political might have seemed a little more convincing had they not closely followed the argument used by ex-President Viktor Yanukovych’s defence lawyers. It is precisely this that makes the SBI’s denial that its First Deputy Director, Oleksandr Babikov played any role in the move seem as lacking in credibility as earlier efforts to deny the irrefutable fact that Babikov was one of Yanukovych’s defence lawyers.
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Ex-lawmaker Tetiana Chornovol speaks to the press before the entering the State Investigation Bureau for the interrogation meeting in Kyiv, on April 14, 2020.
