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Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych has demanded that Prosecutor General Oleksandr Medvedko organize checks on allegations made in the letter by Ukraine's first president, Leonid Kravchuk, about the involvement of law enforcement agencies in politics.

The presidential press service reported this on Tuesday.

The president said he wills personally oversee this issue, and instructed the prosecutor general to report the results of the checks as soon as possible.

A number of media reported that on July 19, Kravchuk asked Yanukovych to prevent the transformation of law enforcement agencies and special services into "the tools of a political game."

According to Kravchuk, these structures, which are expected to protect human rights and freedoms and national interests, are facing a real threat of being involved in nontransparent and strategically harmful processes.

In particular, he said he believes that the decisions of the Security Service of Ukraine to detain former head of State Customs Service Anatoliy Makarenko and former deputy head of Naftogaz Ukrainy Ihor Didenko are excessive measures, which were not necessary for the investigation of the case.