Deputy Prosecutor General of Ukraine Vitaliy Kasko has announced he has submitted his letter of resignation.
“I’ve decided to resign from the prosecutor’s office, here’s my letter,” he said at a press conference in Kyiv on Monday.
“The senior officials of the Prosecutor General’s Office have in the end turned it into an agency where one hand washes the other, and any attempt to change this situation from inside of the prosecutor’s office is immediately persecuted, being made an example for others to see,” Kasko said.
“A travesty of justice and lawlessness rather than justice and law rule there, and more and more key positions at the Prosecutor General’s Office are taken by those who have been taught by the successors of infamous prosecutor [Viktor] Pshonka. Protectorship has been hidden behind the screens of the formally reformed agency,” he added.
Kasko said he had consulted with “our foreign partners” before he had decided to resign and his decision had been supported.
Kasko said the incumbent Prosecutor General Viktor Shokin did not know about his resignation at that moment, as he would send him the letter of resignation after the press conference.
Kasko also said he would work as a lawyer and provide expert services.
Kasko was appointed deputy prosecutor general in May 2014.
