Former Ukrainian Interior Minister Yuriy Lutsenko has asked the Prosecutor General Viktor Pshonka to bring proceedings against Deputy Prosecutor General Renat Kuzmin and an investigator in his case, Serhiy Voichenko, for issuing unlawful warrant for his detention and arrest.
“Today we have sent Lutsenko’s statement to the Prosecutor General’s Office,” the ex-minister’s defense lawyer told Interfax-Ukraine on Wednesday.
Lutsenko has repeatedly stated the need to charge Kuzmin and Voychenko with cooking up the criminal case against him.
Kyiv’s Pechersky District Court found Lutsenko guilty of a number of counts of abuse of office and sentenced him to four years in prison on February 27, 2012. Lutsenko was also charged with interfering in an investigative case concerning Valentyn Davydenko, the driver of former SBU First Deputy Chief Volodymyr Satsiuk, as part of an investigation into the poisoning of then presidential candidate Viktor Yuschenko on August 17, 2012 by Pechersky Court. The court sentenced Lutsenko to two years in prison.
On August 31, 2012, the ex-minister was transferred to the Mena Penal Colony in Chernihiv region.
