DOBKIN
SAYS HE
INITIATED CASE AGAINST POROSHENKO FOR TOMOS AND P.Ts.U.
A former
people's
deputy from the Opposition Bloc, Mikhail Dobkin, boasted that he
was the
initiator of the new case against the fifth president, Petro
Poroshenko. He
stated this on his Telegram-channel, Glavkom writes.
"Serve
prison
time for the tomos, Petya," Dobkin noted. He also published his
statement
to the GBR [State Bureau of Investigation].
"Indeed,
by
manipulating the aspirations of the Orthodox community of
Ukraine for
unification, Poroshenko used church organizations and religious
conflict for
the achievement of victory in the elections of 2019. Such
criminal actions by
Porosheko aggravated religious (inter-confessional) conflict and
hostility in
the state. . . .
"However,
statements
by President Poroshenko, decisions of parliament adopted by his
political forces, numerous visits by diplomatic delegations from
Ukraine to
Istanbul, and government officials' meetings with the patriarch
of
Constantinople permit one to conclude that the topic of
unification of Orthodox
confessions of Ukraine and the expedience of creating a local
church had ceased
to be the internal business of the church. Active political
interference and
administrative pressure on believers of the Ukrainian Orthodox
churches of the
Moscow and Kiev patriarchates occurred, with the aim of forcing
them to accept
the project of the creation of a united Orthodox church in just
that format
that Poroshenko and the president's political circles of the
time considered
correct," the statement says.
Dobkin
says that the
actions of Poroshenko "constituted a danger for the civil peace
and
political stability in Ukraine and they contain evidence of
criminal actions as
specified in articles 109 (actions directed to violent change or
overthrow of
the constitutional structure or seizure of state power), 161
(violation of the
equal rights of citizens depending upon their race, national
affiliation,
religious convictions, disabilities, and other indicators), and
364 (abuse of
authority or office) of the Criminal Code of Ukraine.
We
recall that the
GBR confirmed the existence of proceedings against Poroshenko
for the tomos.
On 18
June,
Poroshenko declared that a criminal case had been opened against
him "on
the basis of inciting inter-religious strife by means of
obtaining a tomos and
creating the Orthodox Church of Ukraine. . . ." (tr. by PDS,
posted 19
June 2020)
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