Police initiated criminal proceedings against Batkivshchyna lawmakers Arseniy Yatsenyuk and Gennadiy Moskal because of "unlawful interference with law enforcement officers."
According
to an official statement, on March 30 Yatsenyuk called to Chernivtsi police department and reported that during a meeting with
voters he had noticed external observation. An investigative team came to the meeting place soon after the call was made and found policemen in a police-owned car secretly observing the meeting. Ukraine’s Interior Ministry emphasized, their
activity was not related to lawmaker’s meeting.
At the same
time, it was found that some people blocked the police-owned car and called Batkivshchyna lawmakers Yatsenyuk and Moskal. According to the police
department website, politicians came and conducted a search of the car and policemen. This was the reason for police to initiate criminal proceedings against Yatsenyuk
and Moskal.
In turn, Gennadiy Moskal emphasized that according to the Criminal Procedure Code, only the prosecutor general can initiate criminal proceedings against members of parliament. He also noted that lawmakers didn’t know there were policemen in the car, as they were not dressed in uniform and said they had been working at the yeast factory. “As I live in Chernivtsi, I know for sure the factory has not been working for 10 years,” Moskal said. Officials from the local department of the Interior Ministry on March 30 also denied that the car belonged to them, he added.
