Leshchenko: Prosecutor General’s Office Protecting Boyko
On July 14, Petro Poroshenko Bloc MP Serhiy Leshchenko asserted at a briefing in the Parliament that top officials of the Prosecutor General’s Office (GPU) tried to prevent charges against Opposition Bloc leader Yuriy Boyko.
Leshchenko showed a hardcopy of the notice of suspicion against Boyko in the case of liquefied gas fraud involving Serhiy Kurchenko. According to Leshchenko, it was produced in July 2015, but the Prosecutor General has not signed it yet.
Leshchenko also claims that this case also involves Andrii Koshel, former CEO of Kurchenko’s company SEPEK who was detained recently. While a similar charge has been made against Koshel, Boyko is not mentioned in this charge.
"It turns out that one year ago, Boyko was suspected of being a member of Kurchenko’s criminal organization, and now his name is never mentioned when the charge is made against another member, Mr Koshel. How can it be?," Leshchenko commented.
He claimed that "Chief Military Prosecutor Anatolii Matios tries to prevent criminal investigation or charges against Mr Boyko in the case of liquefied gas fraud involving Serhiy Kurchenko."
Leshchenko cited the official response of Matios that Boyko was interviewed as a witness, saying that one year ago all documents were ready to interrogate him as a suspect.
"I believe that Mr Matios has a conflict of interest in the Boyko case, because he used to work in the Presidential Administration headed by Serhiy Lyovochkin who is the best friend and close associate of Mr Boyko," Leshchenko adds.
Source: Oleh Shankovskyi, Ukrayinska Pravda
