Poroshenko at the Supreme Court: The government has been hiding falsification of sanctions documents for months

Petro Poroshenko, during a meeting of the panel of judges of the Cassation Chamber of the Supreme Court on the lawsuit against President Volodymyr Zelensky regarding the illegal Decree on sanctions, stated that the authorities have been unable to hand over all the documents requested by the court for 7 months.

“I have reasonable suspicion that you or your employees falsified the materials that were submitted to the Cabinet of Ministers and the National Security and Defense Council,” Poroshenko said.

“Transfer to the process in the seventh month the original materials on the basis of which those who prepared and signed the decisions on sanctions were either deliberately manipulated or you misled. This is of fateful importance,” Poroshenko believes.

“Give the original so that the entire country and the entire world can be convinced that on February 12, when the decision on sanctions was made, this document – this is our reasonable suspicion, prove that this is not so – was not at the disposal of the members of the National Security and Defense Council, nor at the disposal of the president. But it got there later, and it was said that there was no data.” Poroshenko.

On July 23, the panel of judges of the Cassation Chamber of the Supreme Court, considering Petro Poroshenko’s claim against President Zelensky to cancel the Decree on sanctions, accepted the request from the National Security and Defense Council, the Cabinet of Ministers and the Ministry of Economy to provide all documents related to the decision-making process on sanctions. The deadline for submitting documents is August 11.

During the previous hearing, it also emerged that President Zelensky’s representative in court could not answer the question of how the decision-making process took place, since she did not participate in the NSDC meeting. She also stated that the sanctions were applied for the purpose of discipline, to prevent potential threats to national interests from the fifth President.

“The first hearing was on April 17, and every month there was only one hearing. All this time, it was a preparatory stage, we were finding out what other documents the government had not provided, and why it had not provided them, and whether it could provide them. In the end, we nevertheless began to discuss the case in essence. It could be anything,” lawyer Ilya Novikov told reporters.

Let us recall that the Supreme Court is considering Petro Poroshenko’s claim against President Volodymyr Zelensky on the illegality of the Decree on Sanctions. In the courtroom are people’s deputies of Ukraine, media representatives, as well as representatives of diplomatic missions.