A Former Ukrainian politician and a key assistant at The Pro-President’s Project Viktor Yanukovych there is killed.
Andriy Portnov, 51, was extracted on Wednesday in the morning of the US School Gate in the Madrid Rich Quartle Pozuela.
Police received a call on shooting in 9.15 hours local time. Cadena Radio Station said that the man took his children to school when he was shot.
Mr. Portnov, from the eastern region Luhansk, former Ukrainian politician is closely related to Yanukovych, who served as Deputy Chief of the Presidential Office from 2010. by 2014. years.
Yanukovych was UkraineThe last Pro-president, which was presented in 2014, the pro-European community of the Union, after refusing to sign, deciding, deciding, deciding, choosing to be energy dealing with Russia.
During the Presidency of Janukovyha, Portnov was widely observed as a pro-Kremlin political character and was involved in the drafting of laws, known as “laws 16. January”, which were aimed at the persecuted revolution in Ukraine. According to the Ukrainian media, he later denied the role in his development, but he admitted that they would approve them for the signing of the then president.
When Yanukovych escaped in Ukraine for Moscow, the effective ending of his prime ministry, he allegedly followed him to Russian capital.
Portnov then faced numerous investigations and sanctions against him, both from Ukraine and the European Union.
The Ukrainian Ministry of the Interior marked the desired person in 2015. years, but the charges fell a year later. The Council of the European Union stabbed personal sanctions against him, together with another Yanukovych associates, but were later discarded due to the lack of evidence.
He moved to Vienna, Austria, a year later, before he finally returned to Ukraine, where he led the TV show criticism of the Presidency Petro Porošenkobillionaire who took over the office after Yanukovich singled out.
In 2018, the Ukrainian Security Service or SBU opened an investigation against him on the suspicion from the state, stating his involvement in the illegal annexation of Russia’s criminal peninsula. The criminal case was closed in 2019. years, and Portnov submitted his own lawsuit that requires allegations against him as false.
But in 2021. year, the US state department announced by deleting sanctions against portniel, describing him as “court repair”.
“Wide known as a court fixator, Portnov was credible to use his influence to buy access and decisions in Ukrainian courts and undermining reform efforts,” said the statement.
“Since 2019, Portnov took steps to control Ukrainian justice, an impact on associate legislation, sought to put loyal officials in several work positions of the judiciary and buy court decisions.”
They added that they believed that Portnov faced a high Ukrainian own official to shape the country’s legal institutions in their favor and influence the Constitutional Court of Ukrun. It is also allegedly involved in an attempt to influence the Ukrainian general prosecutor.