The former deputy chief of the criminal investigation department at the Ukrainian Interior Ministry, Volodymyr Tarasenko, who is a defendant in the second case against former Interior Minister Yuriy Lutsenko, has said that the Interior Ministry had all of the grounds to carry out operational activities with respect to Valentyn Davydenko, the driver of former SBU First Deputy Chief Volodymyr Satsiuk.
“There were all of the grounds to conduct operational activities with respect to Davydenko for 11 months… We had concrete reasons for carryinh out these activities,” Tarasenko said at a hearing of the Pechersky District Court of Kyiv on Friday.
He said there was an order by Deputy Prosecutor General Mykola Holomsha to conduct such actions.
Tarasenko said that neither he nor his colleague, Oleh Pavlenov, who is also a defendant in the case, had committed any illegal actions.
