MOSCOW, February 7. /TASS/. An opposition Ukrainian lawmaker has announced that a list containing the names of everyone involved in the organization of the Ukrainian Security Service’s (SBU) secret prison in Kiev in 2022 has been compiled.
"This project is based on testimonies from former prisoners of the SBU’s secret prison that operated in Kiev from February to November 2022. <…> We will make public the names of judges, prosecutors, investigators and law enforcement officers who worked for the repressive system and legalized the regime’s crimes," Alexander Dunbinsky, a member of Ukraine’s Verkhovna Rada, or national parliament, wrote on his Telegram channel.
The lawmaker’s list begins with judges of the Kiev Shevchenko district court who examined all the cases linked "with the inmates of the concentration camp dubbed as 'gym,' because all the detentions and investigations were conducted by the SBU, which referred cases to this court."
According to Dubinsky, during court hearings many witnesses described torture, illegal detentions and inhumane incarceration conditions during the probe, but "despite the obvious evidence of crimes and their systemic nature, the judges continued ignoring these facts, fulfilling the regime’s criminal orders and legalizing the SBU’s activities." In his words, his team is working on having these people sanctioned internationally. Apart from that, sanctions should be imposed on judges from Kiev’s Pechersky district and the Court of Appel.
The lawmaker said earlier that an SBU concentration camp had operated in downtown Kiev in 2022. It was allegedly organized by Vladimir Zelensky and his closest mates, his childhood friend Ivan Bakanov, who was SBU’s chief at the time, and his first deputy Vasily Malyuk, who now heads the service.