The motion submitted by the Prosecutor General of Ukraine on granting the consent of the Verkhovna Rada to bring to criminal responsibility, the detention and arrest of an MP from the Opposition Bloc faction, Yevhen Bakulin, has been submitted to the parliament, its chairman, Andriy Parubiy, has said.
“I’ve just received from the Prosecutor General of Ukraine a motion to the parliament’s consent to bring to criminal responsibility, the detention and arrest Ukrainian MP Bakulin Yevhen Mykolayovych,” he wrote on his Facebook page on Feb.19.
The speaker also informed that he had forwarded the documents to the Verkhovna Rada regulatory committee for consideration.
As reported, on February 2, Ukrainian Prosecutor General Yuriy Lutsenko announced his intention to submit to the Verkhovna Rada in the near future a motion on giving consent to the removal of immunity from MP Bakulin, his detention, and arrest.
According to the Prosecutor General, Bakulin is a Verkhovna Rada member, but he has not visited the territory of Ukraine for a long time. “But nevertheless, for any further steps – suspicion, putting him on the wanted list – we need permission from the Verkhovna Rada,” said Lutsenko.
The Prosecutor General specified that the submission would concern a request for criminal prosecution, in particular under the articles “the creation of an organized criminal group” and “the plunder of public funds.”
On February 16, Lutsenko signed a request for permission to bringing to criminal responsibility, detention and electing a preventive measure for Opposition Bloc faction MP Yevhen Bakulin.
Earlier, in July 2017, Lutsenko said that Bakulin could have become the next MP, against whom he would ask for the removal of immunity in the case of the so-called “Boiko’s oil rigs” (the case of the purchase of overpriced rigs for oil production and gas on the Black Sea shelf, in which co-chairman of the Opposition Bloc faction Yuriy Boiko is allegedly involved).
Bakulin in 2007, and also from 2010 to 2014, served as chairman of the board of Naftogaz of Ukraine.
