In January, former Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko received a court docket ruling permitting him to stay at liberty whereas being investigated for treason in a probe he says was a politically motivated assault linked to allies of his successor, President Volodymyr Zelensky
In January, former Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko received a court docket ruling permitting him to stay at liberty whereas being investigated for treason in a probe he says was a politically motivated assault linked to allies of his successor, President Volodymyr Zelensky
Former Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko was prevented from leaving Ukraine to participate in a gathering of a NATO physique in Lithuania, his occasion’s parliamentary faction stated on Saturday.
Poroshenko was stopped twice at a border crossing with Poland whereas he was on his method to the assembly of NATO’s Parliamentary Assembly, a consultative interparliamentary organisation, the assertion stated.
Ukrainian media reported Poroshenko couldn’t cross the border as a consequence of “technical problems” with a allow permitting him to go away the nation.
“Poroshenko had received all the formal permissions to leave the country and had been included … in the official delegation of the Parliament of Ukraine for this event,” his European Solidarity parliamentary faction stated.
Poroshenko was to have quite a lot of high-level conferences in Vilnius, together with with the President of Lithuania Gitanas Nauseda. He was additionally scheduled to take part in a gathering of the European People’s Party in Rotterdam, it stated.
In January, Poroshenko received a court docket ruling permitting him to stay at liberty whereas being investigated for treason in a probe he says was a politically motivated assault linked to allies of his successor, President Volodymyr Zelensky.
Poroshenko is being investigated in reference to the financing of Russian-backed separatists within the east of the nation by way of unlawful coal gross sales in 2014-15.