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Former State Guard Department Major Mykola Melnychenko has said that he would like the Prosecutor General's Office to hold a face-to-face interrogation between Second Ukrainian President Leonid Kuchma (1994-2005) and former Ukrainian Prime Minister Pavlo Lazarenko.

"I would like a face-to-face interrogation to be held between Leonid Danylovych [Kuchma] and Pavlo Ivanovych [Lazarenko]. This would help Ukraine recover tens of billions of dollars that were stolen," he said in Kyiv on Wednesday, before entering the building of the Prosecutor General’s Office.