Prosecutor's Office

The announcements for positions in the Office of the Inspector General in the Prosecutor General’s Office of Ukraine will be posted soon, Prosecutor General Yuriy Lutsenko said on 112 Channel on Saturday, July 23.

Irpin Mayor Volodymyr Karpliuk denies he fled from Ukraine.

The mayors of Irpin and Bucha – cities in Kyivska Oblast – can be sentenced to six years in prison, Volodymyr Hutsuliak of the Prosecutor General’s Office (GPU) said on July 21. If they are also convicted of abuse of power, the incarceration term may be as high as 12 years.

The Mayor of Irpin in Kyiv oblast Volodymyr Karpliuk has left the country, and there are searches at the Mayor of Bucha Anatoliy Fedoruk’s home related to the case of embezzlement of 900 hectares of forest.

The Main Investigative Department of the Office of the Prosecutor General launched an investigation against Yevhen Deydey, an MP from Narodnyi Front [En.: People’s Front] and included it to the registry of the pretrial investigations.

Prosecutor General Yuriy Lutsenko requested the Prime Minister to initiate an internal investigation with regard to Interior Minister Arsen Avakov’s failure to report his conflict of interest when the Ministry investigated the case of Avakov’s business partner Igor Kotvitskyi.

Former Deputy Head of the Prosecutor General’s office Vitaliy Kasko claims that Pavlo Demchyna, who was appointed the new Deputy Head of the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) by President Petro Poroshenko, is involved in corruption.

The Prosecutor General’s Office and State Security Service detained the First Deputy Chief of the State Labor Service Mykhailo Bardonov on taking a ₴100 thousand bribe.

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.

On July 14, investigative officers of Prosecutor General’s Office (GPU) found parts of a sniper rifle which Berkut police officers used to fire at Maidan protesters near Zhovtnevyi Palace.

Law enforcement officers have detained two former top managers of the National Bank of Ukraine (NBU) who are accused of involvement in a criminal organization controlled by ex-President Yanukovych.

Prosecutor General Yuriy Lutsenko dismissed Anatoliy Kovalchuk from the post of Rivne oblast prosecutor, he told Ukrayinsky Novyny

The General Prosecutor’s Office (GPU) and Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) found an unprecedented stockpile of weapons, ammunition and explosives illegally taken from the war zone.

The Chief Military Prosecutor’s Office published the testimonies that were grounds for the initial court decision to choose detainment as a pretrial restriction measure for Aidar commander Valentyn Lykholit.

On June 24, Prosecutor General Yuriy Lutsenko discharged Vyacheslav Kryvovyaz, Mykolaiv Oblast Prosecutor, from his duties.

The pre-trial investigation regarding four Pravyi Sektor fighters who carried out a terror attack in Mukacheve in western Ukraine in July 2015 was completed on June 24, and the indictment was sent to court.

An investigation has proved that a number of bullets which struck Maidan protesters in Kyiv were shot from the weapons of the ‘Berkut’ special riot police.

Pecherskyi Court in Kyiv requested the Prosecutor General’s Office (GPU) to take account of information provided by the ex-Head of the State Security Service (SBU) Valentyn Nalyvaichenko on an offshore company Intraco allegedly associated with President Poroshenko.

MP Oleksandr Onyshchenko is suing the Prosecutor General’s Office and NABU in regards to protecting his dignity and business reputation.

The MP said he planned to go to NABU himself and take TV cameras along, so that their communication would be public and nobody could accuse him of running away and hiding from investigation.

Prosecutor General Yuriy Lutsenko appointed Oleg Zhuchenko as prosecutor of Odesa oblast.

On June 15, the Prosecutor General’s Office (GPU) filed a case against ex-Kyiv Oblast officials with the court. The case involves embezzlement of hunting land at Sukholuchia by ex-President Yanukovych.

The Prosecutor General’s Office has started criminal proceedings against Petro Poroshenko Bloc MP Alexey Honcharenko based on articles 110 and 161 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine.

Mustafa Nayyem, MP from Petro Poroshenko Bloc outlined the information he received during his meeting with the newly appointed Prosecutor General Yuriy Lutsenko.

Prosecutor General Yuriy Lutsenko announced changes to the structure of the Prosecutor General’s Office on May 21, 2016.

Prosecutor General Yuriy Lutsenko visited cell #158 in Lukyanivska prison in Kyiv where he served a sentence for almost two years.

Activists of the Anti-Corruption Action Centre claim that the Prosecutor General’s Office of Ukraine continues harassing them.

A source told Ekonomichna Pravda that the Security Service of Ukraine, Prosecutor General’s Office, and officers from Alpha Special Group are conducting a search and seizure of documents at the state-owned company Ukrgazvydobuvannia