{"id":7379,"date":"2016-04-12T08:06:03","date_gmt":"2016-04-12T05:06:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ces.org.ua\/en\/?p=1176"},"modified":"2019-05-31T00:24:27","modified_gmt":"2019-05-30T21:24:27","slug":"statement-concerning-the-inadmissibility-of-persecution-vitaly-kasko","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ces.org.ua\/en\/statement-concerning-the-inadmissibility-of-persecution-vitaly-kasko\/","title":{"rendered":"Statement concerning the inadmissibility of persecution Vitaly Kasko"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>We, the representatives of civil society demand to stop persecution of ex-Deputy Prosecutor General Vitaliy Kasko by the Prosecutor General\u2019s Office.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Mr. Kasko, during his tenure as Deputy Prosecutor General, initiated criminal proceeding in the case of the so called \u201cdiamond prosecutors\u201d, in which Oleksandr Korniets, a person close to ex-Prosecutor General, was one of the persons of interest. Right after Vitaliy Kasko resigned from the Prosecutor General\u2019s Office, criminal proceeding was registered against him on the fact of fraud<\/p>\n<p>Since that time this case has been an instrument for personal pressure and revenge to Mr. Kasko for his numerous public statements on covering up corruption and combating reforms of prosecution by Mr. Shokin.<\/p>\n<p>On 22 March 2016 Mr. Kasko\u2019s apartment was seized. And a person who appealed the court to seize the property was Mr. Shokin even though there are no provisions in the Criminal Procedure Code demanding that.<\/p>\n<p>Late at night on Sunday, April 10<sup>th<\/sup>, right on the street in the center of Kyiv several officers of special forces and of the Prosecutor General\u2019s Office, among whom was the head of the Department for Investigation of Criminal Proceedings in the Sphere of Civil Service and Property of the Prosecutor General\u2019s Office Mr. Dmytro Stus, tried to serve Vitaliy Kasko with \u201csummons of suspicion\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Besides the outright theatrelized character of actions, when the prosecutor\u2019s office did not find time to conduct relevant procedural action during the working hours, prosecution officers committed a number of other <strong>serious violations of constitutional rights of V.Kasko and of the laws of Ukraine<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Among them were:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Violation of the right to private property guaranteed by article 41 of the Constitution.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Damage was inflicted to the car, in particular, the door from the driver\u2019s side was covered with the unknown substance, obviously by law enforcement officers with the aim to prevent Mr, Kasko from getting into his car.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Violation of the right to personal privacy guaranteed by article 32 of the Constitution.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The only way to track Mr. Kasko\u2019s location was to put a tail on him. Obviously, this unlawful activity was carried out without proper authorization of the court. Therefore, such actions shall be qualified pursuant to article 186 of the Criminal Code as violation of personal privacy.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Violation of the right to protection in part of prohibition of carrying out investigative actions at night time (from 22:00 to 6:00) stipulated by part 4 of article 223 of the CPC.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Serving \u201csummons of suspicion\u201d is not the procedure demanding urgent actions. Such behavior of prosecutors had the only reason \u2013 to put psychological pressure on Mr. Kasko.\u00a0 Such things were done to suspects during Stalin\u2019s repressions when searches, arrests and interrogations were conducted at night time.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Violation of guarantees for protection of attorneys which status Mr. Kasko has.\u00a0According to item 1 of part 1 of article 481 of the CPC only the Prosecutor General, his deputy or the prosecutor of the city of Kyiv have the right to serve an attorney with \u201csummons of suspicion\u201d. Any of the above mentioned prosecutors were present at the place of that night\u2019s events.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Taking into account the above mentioned facts, it becomes clear that Vitaliy Kasko is being put under pressure to intimidate all those who aims to reveal corruption among prosecutors in the future.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Therefore, we demand from authorities and officials responsible for relevant decisions to:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Stop politically motivated persecution and pressuring of the ex-Deputy Prosecutor General Mr. Vitaliy Kasko;<\/li>\n<li>Initiate criminal proceedings on the facts of actions committed by officers of the Prosecutor General\u2019s Office, described above in this statement, provide for their effective investigation and bring those guilty of them to responsibility;<\/li>\n<li>Prevent similar persecution and pressure on investigators and prosecutors involved in investigation of the case of \u201cdiamond prosecutors\u201d.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>Reanimation Package of Reforms<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Transparency International Ukraine<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Anticorruption Action Center<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Centre of Policy and Legal Reform<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Centre for political studies and analysis \u201cEydos\u201d<\/em><br \/>\n<em>CrimeasSOS<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Media Law Institute<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Institute of Mass Information<\/em><br \/>\n<em>NGO Centre UA<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Human Rights Information Center<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Euromaidan Civic Sector<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Association of Human Rights Monitors on Law Enforcement<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Ukrainian Independent Centre for Political Studies<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Advocacy center \u201cLife\u201d<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Foundation \u201cOpen Dialog\u201d<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Foundation of Regional Initiatives<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Centre for Economical Strategy<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Centre of Local Self Governance<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Political Studies Association<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Committee for restoration of historical justice<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Agency for Development of Civil Society<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Institute for Social and Economic Transformation<\/em><br \/>\n<em>NGO \u201cInitiative \u0415+\u201d<\/em><br \/>\n<em>NGO \u201cKolovorot\u201d<br \/>\nCivic movement \u201cChesno\u201d<\/em><br \/>\n<em>People\u2019s Control of Kirovohrad Region<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Elina Shyshkina, MP of Ukraine of the 6th convocation<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Oleksandr Yabchanka, Manager of working group on health reform in RPR<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Mykhailo Zhernakov, Leading expert on Judiciary, Board member of Reanimation Package of Reforms<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Nataliya Sokolenko, journalist<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Source:<a href=\"http:\/\/rpr.org.ua\/en\/news\/statement-concerning-the-inadmissibility-of-persecution-vitaly-kasko\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\"> Reanimation Package of Reforms<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We, the representatives of civil society demand to stop persecution of ex-Deputy Prosecutor General Vitaliy Kasko by the Prosecutor General\u2019s Office. 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