Lawyer Novikov on “pseudo-expertise”: the issue is not Poroshenko, but that this is a Russian scheme that will be used against any of you tomorrow

The situation with the so-called “expertise” that the State Bureau of Investigation “ordered” in the case fabricated against Petro Poroshenko is extremely alarming because it is a purely Russian technology. And its use in Ukraine is a negative signal for society.

Lawyer Ilya Novikov said this on air at Pryamoy.

He noted that such an “expertise” is illegal, and the signatories of this document do not have the appropriate qualifications; they are specialists in fire safety, explosives engineering, and military affairs. The fact that these people agreed to put their signatures under the “conclusion” on legal issues, and the State Bureau of Investigation investigator attached this “document” to the case, means that everything is going according to a planned scheme and a judge has already been appointed who is ready to legalize such lawlessness.

“Legal issues are resolved exclusively by the court, and not by any court and not in any procedure. This is definitely not an expert procedure. This is a procedure of a court hearing based on adversarial proceedings. But when a person sits down and writes that, in his opinion, something contradicts the Constitution of Ukraine, this is not a legal procedure at all. And as for the involvement of these experts – any person in any field, be it an explosive expert, a fireman or even a diplomat, if he is offered to conduct an examination of whether certain events have damaged the national security and sovereignty of Ukraine, then he must refuse,” Novikov explained.

“Such a structure, with such an examination, is possible only in the case when the investigator and the prosecutor who organize it are sure that the judge will cover them. That the judge will not look at them, saying, dear, are you crazy? What have you brought us? The judge will really shake his head and say, well, yes, the examination is evidence, we will take it as a basis,” the lawyer suggests.

“This requires controlled cooperation with the court, with this particular judge. And this requires either Portnov, or, if you no longer have Portnov, it requires another person or people who will take on these unofficial, but very important functions of Portnov. Who will ensure that the judge does not throw out your “expertise”, but will pretend that he really perceives it as real,” explains Ilya Novikov.

“You see, Poroshenko will not limit himself to this. Because for the services that consist of what is called “catching up” with Poroshenko with criminal cases, the only currency that can be used to pay for this is carte blanche. It will be necessary to catch up with others, who will be chosen by a certain investigator who has earned such rights. And these people will not be Poroshenko, these people will be you and me. That’s how it worked in Russia when this system was being built there,” notes Ilya Novikov.

“I read this “expertise” in 2025, written in Kyiv. And I remember how I began to see similar expertises in Russia, starting around the beginning of the 2010s. When the system was already cemented and it was clear that any judge would nod his head when they brought him something like this. The difference between our situation and the Russian one is not that Russian investigators are smart and they thought of this technology earlier than Mr. Artem Yablonsky, the State Bureau of Investigation investigator who wrote the request for this expertise. The difference is that there it is a systemic vertical, which is already fully built. And here it still requires separate work, but you see that the investigators are essentially betting their careers on the fact that even without Portnov, there will be a judge who will miss this,” says Novikov.

“We need society to understand what is happening before its eyes. The point is that for a long time, and preferably forever, not only Mr. Yablonsky, who is in charge of the investigation in this case, who raised these questions in this examination, but also other investigators should simply lose the desire to play this game. And this cannot be done through formal means. This must be, first of all, a reaction from society,” Novikov believes.

“Any investigators who ask such questions should be fired from their jobs. And any experts who agree to answer such questions in such a manner, their status, their qualifications, I am convinced, should also be reviewed. The situation requires active opposition to this approach, this scheme, and not to the specific situation of Petro Poroshenko at the moment. The situation is broader and the reaction should be more extensive,” the lawyer warns.

Let us recall that the authorities fabricated a pseudo-expertise that accuses the fifth president and leader of “European Solidarity” Petro Poroshenko of starting the Russian invasion and discredits the changes to the Constitution on the course towards NATO.

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