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By the end of 2014, 1,500 Prosecutor General's Office of Ukraine employees will be laid off, Prosecutor General Vitaliy Yarema has said.

“… since June 19, 2,500 Prosecutor General’s Office employees have been laid off, and we’re planning to downsize another 1,500 [employees] by the end of the year, due to the layoff of primary supervision,” Yarema said at the meeting of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine Committee on Legislative Support of Law Enforcement in Kyiv on Dec. 24.