Former Ukrainian Interior Minister Yuriy Lutsenko has said he is confident that the United States District Court for the District of Columbia will take a decision in his favor and that the leadership of the Ukrainian Prosecutor General's Office will be declared responsible for carrying out a criminal prosecution.
"I have actually filed a lawsuit in a respective U.S. court against the Ukrainian officials responsible for my illegal detention, which led to serious consequences for my health. I’m confident that the falsifiers of the case from the Prosecutor General’s Office and the judges who took anti-constitutional decisions [to choose the measure of restraint in the form of arrest] will be held personally to account," Lutsenko told reporters on Monday through his lawyers.
He said that the United States District Court for the District of Columbia, in contrast to the European Court of Human Rights, considered lawsuits against concrete individuals, rather than states.
It became known on Monday that Lutsenko had submitted a lawsuit at the United States District Court for the District of Columbia against the leadership of the Prosecutor General’s Office.
Lutsenko asked the court to recognize his criminal prosecution as unlawful and politically motivated.
Among the defendants are Prosecutor General Viktor Pshonka, his first deputy, Renat Kuzmin, as well as investigator Serhiy Voichenko and state prosecutor Yevhen Zinchenko.
