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CRIMINAL AND DISCIPLINARY PROSECUTION,
OR THREATS OF PROSECUTION, OF ATTORNEYS.
SEARCHES AND QUESTIONING OF DEFENCE COUNSELS

SUBPOENA OF AN ATTORNEY AS A WITNESS

Ihor Cherezov, Oksana Tomchuk, Andrii Bohdan
attorneys of politician Hennadiy Korban
In January 2016, O. Nedilko, an investigator of the Kyiv Prosecutor's Office, subpoenaed
the attorneys for questioning as witnesses in criminal proceedings regarding politician
Hennadiy Korban . The reason for the subpoena of the attorneys was that the attorneys
had allegedly facilitated H. Korban in creating a criminal organization.

Serhii Vilkov
attorney
In February 2016, R. Hryhoryshyn, senior investigator of the Prosecutor- General’s Office of
Ukraine, questioned the attorney as a witness in order to coerce the attorney and obtain
information protected by attorney-client privilege .
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Serhhi Vesnin, Ruslan Kapran, Nadiia Brattseva
attorneys
Since February 2016, employees of the Prosecutor's Office of Dnipropetrovsk Region and
investigators of the Investigation Department of the National Police of Ukraine in
Dnipropetrovsk Region have being conducting investigative measures against the
attorneys, making threats and have repeatedly subpoenaed them for questioning as
witnesses.

Oksana Sokolovska
public defender to Russian citizen Yevgenii Yerofeiev

Since January 2016, through certain investigative actions within criminal proceedings
under Article 121 of the CC of Ukraine, the prosecutor of Kyiv Region has been putting
pressure on the attorney as a public defender to Russian citizen Ye. Yerofeiev. The attorney
was served with a notice of suspicion and was questioned as a suspect .
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Ihor Pokotylo
attorney
In the spring of 2017, the attorney and member of the Disciplinary Chamber of the Kyiv
Qualification and Disciplinary Commission of the Bar, was interrogated within criminal
proceedings regarding the reasons for his vote at hearings of the Disciplinary Chamber .
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