Kyiv Prosecutor's Office has included in a unified register of pre-trial investigations the information on Ukrainian presidential candidate and Regions Party MP Oleh Tsariov criminal committing actions under Article 110 of the Criminal Code (encroachment on Ukraine's territorial integrity and inviolability), the press service of the Ukrainian Prosecutor General's Office has reported.
Such a reaction by the prosecutor’s office is related to public
statements made by Tsariov during mass events and in the media, in which
he “called for the separation of the country, encroached on the
territorial integrity of the state and expressed separatist intentions.”
“If these facts and his guilt are confirmed, the Prosecutor General’s
Office will prepare an appeal to the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine with a
motion to strip parliamentarian Tsariov of his status as a people’s
deputy of Ukraine. Simultaneously a motion could be submitted to the
Central Election Commission to deprive him of the status of a candidate
for president of Ukraine,” the Prosecutor General’s Office reported.
