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Ukraine Ex-president Yanukovych Put on Interpol ‘Wanted’ List


Interpol has put Ukraine’s former president Viktor Yanukovych on its international wanted persons list on charges of embezzlement.

The international police organization’s website posted a so-called “red notice,” stating that Yanukovych is wanted by Ukraine’s judicial authorities on charges of “misappropriation, embezzlement or conversion of property through malversation” – meaning improper or corrupt behavior in office – on a large scale or by an organized group.

Yanukovych fled Ukraine for Russia last February in the face of mass street protests in which more than 100 people, mostly demonstrators, were killed. Protest leaders allege that Yanukovych gave the order to security forces to …read more

Source: Voice of America

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