Ukrainian Prosecutor General Yuriy Lutsenko has said that if unaffiliated Ukrainian MP Nadia Savchenko fails to come to the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) for interrogation, he will be obliged to submit a motion to the Verkhovna Rada on the removal of parliamentary immunity from her, criminal prosecution and arrest.
“I directly appeal to her [Savchenko] with the request to arrive tomorrow at 11.00 a.m. for interrogation to the SBU investigator and give explanations on the case. If she does not do so, I, as Ukraine’s prosecutor general, have sufficient grounds and authority to table in the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine a motion idea on removing parliamentary immunity from her, detaining and arresting this people’s deputy,” Lutsenko told journalists in the Ukrainian parliament on March 14.
The SBU said earlier that it had handed summonses to the Verkhovna Rada secretariat on March 12 for Savchenko to be questioned on March 13 and 15 in the criminal case of Volodymyr Ruban, the head of the Officer Corps POW Liberation Center.
Savchenko said that she had not received a summons to the SBU but promised to appear if one was delivered to her personally.
Savchenko said she was “on a planned working trip to the European Parliament in Strasbourg [from March 12 to 16], where EU parliamentary sessions are underway.”
The SBU expects Savchenko to come for interrogation on March 15.
