European Commissioner for Enlargement and European Neighborhood Policy Stefan Fuele has expressed concern over the early return of former Interior Minister Yuriy Lutsenko to prison from hospital, where he underwent surgery.
“[I am] concerned by the health aspects of the transfer of Yuriy Lutsenko from hospital to prison so soon after serious surgery,” Fuele wrote on his Twitter page.
As reported, Lutsenko, who underwent surgery in the private clinic Oberig in Kyiv, was transferred back to Mena penal colony in Kyiv region on Wednesday morning. The press service of the State Penitentiary Service of Ukraine reported that on January 30, Lutsenko was discharged by Oberig doctors from the clinic. According to the press service, after the planned surgery, the doctors provided their recommendations for the further outpatient treatment of Lutsenko, which will be conducted by medical staff of the penal colony.
Lutsenko, who has been serving a sentence in Mena colony, Chernihiv region, since late August 2012, for several crimes involving the abuse of office, since the end of August 2012, agreed to undergo surgery to remove a polyp in his intestine in late December 2012. Larysa Sarhan, press officer for the People’s Self-Defense Party, said Lutsenko would be treated in a private clinic in Kyiv at his own expense. Lutsenko was transported to Kyiv-based Oberig Clinic on January 20. On January 23, he underwent surgery.
