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The associates repelled the arrested Saakashvili from the Security Service of Ukraine. He urged everyone to gather on the Maidan
In Kiev, the associates managed to free the arrested leader of the "movement of new forces", the ex-head of the Odessa Regional State Administration Mikhail Saakashvili from the car of the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU), UNIAN reports.
Protesters broke the doors in a minibus in which politics was transported and released it. As the correspondent of the publication reports, before that, activists broke the windows in the minibus.
The SBU car drove about 10 meters in reverse, after which the protesters began to beat the windows on the left side. Law enforcement officers used tear gas from spans, then the bus drove about another meter in reverse.
Supporters #Saakashvili freed him from the minibus Pic.twitter.com/84CG6TFM7A
- Gromadskoye (@hromadskeru) December 5, 2017
Saakashvili, being free, called on supporters to go to the building of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine with a request to adopt the law on impeachment of the President, Interfax reports. “We are going to the Rada and require the impeachment of the president,” the politician said, speaking to the gathered supporters and journalists on Kostelnaya Street in the center of Kyiv on Tuesday after he left the car on which he was planned to be delivered for interrogation.
“I urge everyone to come to the Maidan and start the process of freeing the country from Poroshenko (...),” he added. After that, Saakashvili, along with supporters, went along Kostelnaya Street towards Independence Maidan.
At the same time, he called all the accusations against the authorities of Ukraine "absolute fake."
#Saakashvili about the accusations: "This is all a fake!" https://t.co/ix7oospi2hx pic.twitter.com/osytzssud6V
- Gromadskoye (@hromadskeru) December 5, 2017
A direct broadcast from the center of Kiev is conducted by the YouTube channel of the Radio "Freedom". In the area of Grushevsky Street, near Rada, a scene was erected. Saakashvili's performance begins.
To protect the Rada, as UNIAN reports, "hundreds of security forces" are pulled up:
Vlada sent Sotn Silovikiv to Zahist for the sake of vid saacashvil (photo) https://t.co/rlduj2tdli pic.twitter.com/ncsj41fra7
- Unian (@unian) December 5, 2017
Recall that on Tuesday morning, the employees of the special forces of the SBU Alpha burst into the Saakashvili apartment, breaking the door. His supporters announced the illegality of the actions of the authorities, insisting on the admission of lawyers to the place of investigative measures. Representatives of law enforcement agencies said that they are acting in accordance with the court decision.
The SBU later stated that "law enforcement officers in the presence of a lawyer had charged Saakashvili of a crime." In particular, he was charged with part 1 of Article 256 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine on "assistance to participants in criminal organizations and concealing their activities by providing premises and in another way." The punishment under this article threatens Saakashvili by deprivation of liberty for a term of three to five years.
Saakashvili himself was hiding on the roof, where he was detained. Meanwhile, Saakashvili's supporters blocked the streets around the house of a politician, and after his detention they began to build barricades. According to the latest data, several people were injured in clashes with the police.
Meanwhile, the Prosecutor General of Ukraine Yuri Lutsenko at a briefing in Kiev said that Mikhail Saakashvili received half a million dollars from businessman Sergei Kurchenko hiding in the Russian Federation for his activities in Ukraine.
Lutsenko said that Ukrainian law enforcement agencies suspect Saakashvili under Article 256 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine. This, according to the Prosecutor General, gives the right to petition for a round -the -clock house arrest of a policy with an electronic bracelet.
"The citizen of Ukraine Suveron Dangadze, in agreement with Saakashvili, appealed through a trustee to Sergey Kurchenko, who is hiding ... on the issue of stable financing of Saakashvili's activities in exchange for the interests of the OF CHI members. We recorded about $ 0.5 million on the Russian side," said the prosecutor general.
According to Lutsenko, the ally of Saakashvili Suverion Dangadze was detained while trying to leave Ukraine, he was seized from him indicating the receipt of funds from the fugitive ally of the ex-president of Ukraine Viktor Yanukovych Sergey Kurchenko.
"It was found that he (Dungadze) is trying to leave Ukraine by car, moving at high speed from Kyiv towards Russia. He was detained by the prosecutor's office at the police post near the city of Lubna, and later the SBU officers were detained, Dangadze was detained, he was questioned, the first suspicion was presented, today the second will be presented to Article 110 of the Criminal Code - Gosman - Gosman and the article 256, ”said the Prosecutor General.
As evidence, the Prosecutor General published a recording of Saakashvili’s conversation with the oligarch Kurchenko, UNIAN reports .