Kyiv City Prosecutor Mykola Herasymyuk and three of his deputies have been suspended under the pressure from members of the Right Sector radical organization, Channel 5 television reported on Tuesday evening, June 17.
It was reported earlier that Right Sector activists picketed the Ukrainian Prosecutor General’s Office on Tuesday, June 17 and demanded Herasymyuk’s dismissal, claiming that he had falsified criminal cases against peaceful protesters.
The Prosecutor General’s Office promised to the activists that it would answer to their demands by 4.00 p.m.
Ihor Mazur, the head of the Kyiv regional branch of Right Sector, told journalists that some Maidan activists had handed an address to the Prosecutor General’s Office on April 10, insisting that the prosecutor of Kyiv, six of his subordinates, the Kharkiv regional prosecutor, and the prosecutors of Vasylkiv and Vinnytsia be dismissed for persecuting Maidan activists.
Acting Prosecutor General Oleh Makhnitsky had said earlier that Kyiv Prosecutor Herasymyuk had no relation to the falsification of criminal cases against Maidan activists as he was not serving in prosecution agencies during the events on Maidan. Moreover, he said Herasymyuk was appointed Kyiv prosecutor based on recommendations from some of Maidan activists.
According to the Web site of the Kyiv City Prosecutor’s Office, Herasymyuk was appointed Kyiv city prosecutor on March 25, 2014. He had earlier served in prosecution agencies in 2000-2007.
