Members of the parliament's anti-corruption committee have raised the issue of the dismissal of Ukrainian Prosecutor General Vitaliy Yarema.
“I advocate issuing conclusions and initiating the dismissal of Prosecutor
General Yarema,” independent MP Volodymyr Parasiuk said at a committee meeting
on Jan. 14.
The initiative was supported by Batkivschyna faction MP Ihor Lutsenko and
independent MP Boryslav Bereza.
The members of the committee expressed indignation at the fact that the
committee’s meeting was attended by the deputies of the invited interior and
justice ministers and the prosecutor general, an Interfax-Ukraine correspondent
reported.
MP from Petro Poroshenko’s Bloc Serhiy Leschenko urged the committee not to
hear reports by the deputies.
He also said he had information that the European Union is going to lift
sanctions, which were earlier introduced against some former Ukrainian
officials. “If sanctions against members of the previous government are lifted,
it is a sufficient reason to raise the issue of the prosecutor general’s
liability,” Leschenko said.
