Two more witnesses in a criminal case opened against former Ukrainian Interior Minister Yuriy Lutsenko have reported the absence of any violations in the assignment of a pension to the former minister's driver, Leonid Prystupliuk.
An Interfax-Ukraine reporter said that at a session on Monday, the court questioned an employee of the Ukrainian Interior Ministry’s personnel department, Volodymyr Yatsenko, who, in particular, noted that he received no illegal instructions from Lutsenko in terms of assigning pensions to Prystupliuk and that he saw no violations in this regard.
The second witness, a chief specialist at the Pension Fund’s department of control over the assignment of pensions to the military, Olena Nescheretna, noted that she received no instructions regarding the assignment of pensions to Prystupliuk.
As for the package of documents that came from the Interior Ministry to the Pension Fund, she said: "This is a common package of documents that usually comes to the Pension Fund."
She also said that all of the documents that, by law, must be submitted during the assignment of pensions were in good order.
In addition, Nescheretna noted that all of her actions on the assignment of pensions complied with the law.
The next court session on the Lutsenko case will be held at 09:10 on Nov. 23.
The court has already questioned nearly a third of witnesses in the Lutsenko case. At a session on Monday, the country interrogated the 40th and 41st witnesses in the case, out of a total of 148.
