Former Ukrainian Interior Minister Yuri Lutsenko has said he believes that the Pechersky District Court of Kyiv should bring in an acquittal in the criminal case opened against him, and that it's only a matter of time before it does so.
"This criminal case is a kind of trial of my four years as head of the Ukrainian Interior Ministry… I came to the police as a man who knew absolutely nothing about the 300,000-strong system … I often made mistakes and studied while working. But my mistakes were never a deliberate plan to break the law for my personal gain," the People’s Self-Defense Party quoted him as saying during his interrogation in the Pechersky District Court on Monday,.
"When I was appointed to the post, my wife was totally against my new job and said: ‘I don’t want anything, I just want you not to get killed, not to be let down or imprisoned in that Interior Ministry.’ Most managers avoided such a prospect, reaching agreement with politicians from all camps and turning a blind eye to the crimes of people under political cover. I did not do it," Lutsenko said.
He said that his criminal case was the result of "checks on the rumors and legends of opponents" and the work of 24 investigators for especially important cases of the Prosecutor General’s Office.
"I can say already today that this case is bound to end in an acquittal. The question is only how long my family and I will have to wait for it," Lutsenko said.
