A commission of experts from the Ukrainian Health Ministry has conducted a medical examination of former Interior Minister Yuriy Lutsenko in Kyiv's pre-trial detention center, the press office of the State Penitentiary Service has reported.
“After the medical examination (a personal examination and a study of
respective medical documents), the commission formulated
recommendations in writing and submitted them to the medical unit of
Kyiv’s pre-trial detention center,” reads the statement.
The prison’s doctors will realize these recommendations within Kyiv’s pre-trial detention center.
The service also noted that over the period of Lutsenko’s stay in
Kyiv’s pre-trial detention center, 15 commissions of experts from the
Ukrainian Health Ministry had been set up for his examination and
treatment. In one case (on May 28, 2012) Lutsenko refused to undergo an
examination. At the same time, in order to conduct a thorough
examination, Lutsenko was transported from the prison to clinics in Kyiv
eight times.
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 the fact
that Lutsenko, while serving as interior minister, allegedly 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 the poisoning of then
presidential candidate Viktor Yuschenko.
