Deputy Prosecutor General Planning to Quit

Deputy Prosecutor General and Chief Military Prosecutor Anatolii Matios is planning to resign in September, he said in an interview to Bukvy.

"I think that currently the Military Prosecutor’s Office is the most effective instrument for the Prosecutor General to deal with all the challenges that he has undertaken to respond to. We’ll be able to finish [what we’re doing now] until September 1, marking Lutsenko’s first 100 days in office. After that, I’ll probably leave with peace of mind. I have people I can leave everything that has been done and created to. I’ll go learn to live a different life," Matios said.

Commenting on his application for the position of the Head of the State Bureau of Investigations (SBI), Matios said he had done it out of "sporting interest, to prove that everything that exists on paper in our country is very difficult to implement in practice." He reminded it has been seven months since the Bureau has existed on paper, but there was no considerable progress on launching it yet.

Matios also said he was surprised at polygraph requirements for the prospective State Bureau of Investigations detectives. "Our anti-corruption colleagues did not have to pass polygraph tests. However, society trusts them more than a detective whose job is to investigate military crimes and crimes against law enforcement, against the detectives of the SBI, NABU, and anti-corruption prosecutors themselves. I am under the impression that the wish to create this agency is as big as you should have to use petrol to extinguish a fire", Matios joked.

Anatolii Matios has been working in his current position since August 2014.

Source: Ukrayinska Pravda