Ukraine’s Prosecutor General Yuriy Lutsenko has said that he will ask the Verkhovna Rada to strip one more lawmaker of immunity from prosecution soon.
“In the coming days you will hear another report, and we’ll wait and see who of the deputies will still hold their seats in fall,” Lutsenko said at a briefing in Zhytomyr on June 23.
In his words, there is sufficient evidence to bring to justice the five lawmakers, the consent to whose prosecution has already been requested from the Verkhovna Rada.
“Will there be enough [evidence] for announcing suspicion against them? I think so. Will it be enough for indictment? It is highly probable. But there is still a pre-trial investigation which should be completed within reasonable time. I believe this will happen somewhere within six months,” the Prosecutor General said.
On June 21, the Verkhovna Rada received requests for removal of parliamentary immunity from prosecution from five lawmakers: Andriy Lozovy (the Radical Party faction), Oles Dovhy (the People’s Will group), Yevhen Deidei and Maksym Poliakov (both of the People’s Front faction) and Boryslav Rozenblat (the Petro Poroshenko Bloc faction).
