The prosecutors in a criminal case opened against former Ukrainian Interior Minister Yuriy Lutsenko have asked the Pechersky District Court in Kyiv to sentence the ex-minister to four-and-a-half years in prison.
An Interfax-Ukraine reporter said that prosecutor Dmytro Loban announced this at a court session on Tuesday.
He asked the court to find Lutsenko guilty of committing crimes and sentence him to four-and-a-half years in prison.
As for the ex-minister’s former driver, Leonid Prystupliuk, the prosecutor asked for a three-year suspended sentence.
During their closing arguments, prosecutors said that the guilt of Lutsenko and Prystupliuk had been proved during the trial.
After the speech by prosecutors in the closing arguments, the ex-minister lodged an application for journalists to be allowed to the trial during the closing arguments.
Lutsenko was arrested on Dec. 26, 2010 and has been kept in detention ever since. He is accused of abuse of power as interior minister in allocating an apartment to his driver and illegally awarding him a pension.
He is also accused of illegally granting permission for surveillance of the driver of the Security Service of Ukraine’s former deputy head Volodymyr Satsiuk as part of a criminal investigation into the poisoning of Viktor Yushchenko, then a presidential candidate, in 2004.
Lutsenko has also been accused of misspending money during the celebration of Police Day in 2009. He has denied all the charges.
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