Ukrainian Prosecutor General Viktor Pshonka has promised to consider the possibility of releasing from custody a number of officials, against whom pre-trial investigations have already been completed.
"We talked with the prosecutor general for about an hour. We spoke about the fate of our comrades who are currently in prison, and against whom pre-trial investigations have already been completed," Our Ukraine-People’s Self-Defense faction member Yuriy Hrymchak told reporters on Thursday.
"Today we did not demand that he [Pshonka] take such a decision. We agreed that they would consider it with the head of the investigation department and the investigator. A little later, the decision will be announced to us," he said.
He said that according to the Criminal Procedure Code, a person against whom a pre-trial investigation has been completed can be released from prison under a travel ban, and that a respective petition had been handed over to Pshonka.
Hrymchak said that the issue, in particular, concerns former First Deputy CEO of Naftogaz Ukrainy Ihor Didenko, former Head of the State Customs Service Anatoliy Makarenko, former Interior Minister Yuriy Lutsenko, former Environment Minister Heorhiy Filipchuk, and former First Deputy Justice Minister Yevhen Korniychuk.
He said that under the law, the Prosecutor General’s Office has ten days to take a decision on this issue. He also expressed hope that over this period, the prosecutor’s office would respond to a respective address by MPs.
