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The so-called labor lustration could apply to up to 2,000 former officials, Justice Minister of Ukraine Pavlo Petrenko has said.

The minister said on the Fifth TV Channel on Oct. 17 that the former president, ex prime minister, deputy prime ministers, ministers and their deputies, heads of law-enforcement agencies, governors and their deputies who worked in the period when Viktor Yanukovych was Ukrainian president for over one year or ran the posts in the period of the Revolution of Dignity. The labor lustration applied to them due to their curriculum vitae. The labor lustration also applied to agents of KGB special services and persons who supported terrorists

“Around 1,000 and up to 2,000 people from the managing body of the Cabinet of Ministers, former presidential administration could be subject to the labor lustration,” Petrenko said.

The minister said that if they do not run posts now, they will not be able to run posts during 10 years.

The lustration property check will touch everyone who wants to run the posts in public service without exception.

On Oct. 16 the law on lustration took effect in Ukraine.