Communist Party leader Petro Symonenko has said he does not believe that Ihor Kaletnik will be dismissed as head of the State Customs Service of Ukraine.
"I am sure that [the president will not issue] a decree [to dismiss Kaletnik from his post]," he told Interfax-Ukraine on Thursday.
Symonenko said that Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych took the issue of bringing order to the customs service very seriously.
"As president, he is really serious about this issue. Therefore, I am sure that such a decree will not be issued," he said.
While commenting on an appeal by Lviv Regional Council to the president asking him to dismiss Kaletnik from his post, Symonenko said: "Kaletnik has tightly closed the border for smuggling. And why did they start raising these questions there [in Lviv]? Because of the 80 [deputies] who voted [for the appeal], 50 people have family ties with those against whom the respective measures were taken."
In 2007, Kaletnik was elected to the Verkhovna Rada on the list of the Communist Party of Ukraine. On Mar 22, 2010, he was appointed head of the State Customs Service.
