Ukraine's ex-interior minister and leader of the People's Self-Defense Party Yuriy Lutsenko, who was detained by the Prosecutor General's Office on Sunday, has made a statement concerning his arrest.
The comment was posted on his party’s Web site on Sunday evening.
"I congratulate [Ukraine’s former president] Viktor Andriyovych Yuschenko that on the sixth year of the inquiry into his poisoning a detention has finally taken place. I believe that in the current political situation it is absolutely logical that former Interior Minister Yuriy Lutsenko has been detained. It is still unsurprising that while complainant Yuschenko himself flatly refused to come to the Prosecutor General’s Office along with the number of witnesses including [Ukraine’s current president Viktor] Yanukovych, the PGO’s investigation used eleven fighters of the SBU’s special services has brought the very Lutsenko to a detention facility," the statement reads.
"A characteristic detail, which indicates the height of absurdity, is the reasoning of my arrest – I supposedly can continue committing the alleged misconduct (and this is at the time when I haven’t been holding the post of minister for a year), as well as pose a danger to society," the ex-minister stressed.
"For me, the political nature of this and other cases of repression against the opponents of the current government is obvious. My detention today has been further evidence of the policy of intimidation and terror against the opposition in Ukraine," the politician said.
