Ukraine's Interior Minister Arsen Avakov has accused Russia of deliberately refusing to put Viktor Yanukovych and other former high-ranking officials on the CIS wanted list.
"The Russian prosecutor general (…) is manipulating the truth when he says that 'the Russian Prosecutor General's Office has yet to receive requests from Ukrainian counterparts for the extradition of Ukrainian ex-president Viktor Yanukovych and other politicians," Avakov wrote on Facebook on Monday.
"The request for extradition of a wanted person or a criminal is made to the authorities of the country where the wanted person was detained as part of a search announced earlier. Russia, in accordance with its commitments under the CIS agreements regarding the search for criminals, was obligated to put the individuals requested by Ukraine, Yanukovych and 23 other individuals, into the search system," Avakov claimed.
