Observers from the European Parliament - former President of the European Parliament Pat Cox and former President of Poland Aleksander Kwasniewski arrived on Friday, July 13, at a sitting of Pechersky District Court in Kyiv, which is considering a separate episode of the criminal case against former Interior Minister Yuriy Lutsenko.
As reported, Pechersky District Court in Kyiv finished questioning
witnesses in the criminal case against former Interior Minister of
Ukraine Yuriy Lutsenko on an episode related to the investigation of the
alleged poisoning of then presidential candidate Viktor Yuschenko, and
started consideration of the case materials.
On February 27, 2012, Pechersky District Court in Kyiv found Lutsenko
guilty of committing official crimes and sentenced him to four years in
prison, with confiscation of his property. Kyiv Court of Appeals on May
16 upheld this verdict.
The essence of the charges lies in allegations that Lutsenko, while
serving as interior minister, facilitated the accrual of an illegal
pension to his driver, Leonid Prystupliuk, the allocation of housing to
him, as well as his inclusion in the operational services department.
Lutsenko is also charged with the extension of an investigative case
concerning the driver of former SBU First Deputy Chief Volodymyr
Satsiuk, as part of an investigation into Yuschenko’s poisoning.
