Yuri Boichenko, spokesman for Ukraine's prosecutor's office, said Prosecutor General Oleksandr Medvedko will remain the nation's top cop until his term expires Nov. 4, 2010. Boichenko refuted news stories circulating on the Internet that a replacement has already been found.
"President Viktor Yanukovych will decide whether to appoint a new chief prosecutor or re-appoint Medvedko with parliament’s approval this fall," Boichenko said.
Widely regarded as loyal to the president before he became president early this year, Medvedko was first named prosecutor general in November 2005, and was renamed to the post in 2007. Like his predecessors, Medvedko failed to bring any top officials to justice despite massive evidence of wrongdoing – nor has he solved any of the long list of resonant crimes that have haunted the country since independence.
Medvedko served as Donetsk Region prosecutor from 1992 to 1999. Between 1999 and 2001 he headed the Donetsk Regional Prosecutor’s Office’s directorate for legal oversight of investigations. Medvedko worked in 2002 as first deputy prosecutor in Luhansk Oblast before being appointed deputy prosecutor general and moving to Kyiv.
