Lutsenko Yurii

Law enforcers detain drug dealers operating in four Ukrainian cities, - Prosecutor General Lutsenko. PHOTOS Members of the Kyiv Prosecutor's Office and Interior Ministry’s Department of Internal Security carried out 57 raids at premises used by a ring of drug dealers in Kyiv, Kryvyi Rih, Kropyvnytskyi, and Dnipro. 06.09.16 17:20 44 045 81 Incidents

"More arrests to follow, we have enough evidence against group of people," - Prosecutor General Lutsenko on Yefremov and Medianyk case Prosecutor General's Office of Ukraine continues investigation into the case of creation of the "Luhansk People's Republic" terrorist organization. 08.08.16 14:25 26 128 80 Previously in trend: Arrest of Yefremov

Law enforcers to report on Korban’s detention and "diamond" prosecutors’ case in Rada tomorrow, MP Lutsenko says The law enforcers will report on the detention of Ukrop party leader Hennadii Korban and the case of the "diamond" prosecutors Volodymyr Shapakin and Oleksandr Korniiets in the Verkhovna Rada tomorrow, Nov. 3. 02.11.15 15:41 10 004 80 Previously in trend: 'Diamond prosecutors' case Korban's arrest

Rada to consider appointment of new prosecutor general in May: PPB has no political consensus on this issue, - MP Anton Herashchenko Political consensus on bills allowing a person without legal education and prosecutorial experience to be appointed prosecutor general has not been reached yet. 21.04.16 13:16 14 235 80 Previously in trend: Prosecutor General Lutsenko

Dual citizenship must be punishable, - top prosecutor on Hungarian passports issued to Ukrainians The Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) initiated criminal proceedings into the issue of Hungarian passports to Ukrainian citizens in the Zakarpattia region. 27.09.18 17:40 4 926 79 Incidents

There are no other formats to build a European Ukraine – Lutsenko on parliamentary coalition Petro Poroshenko Bloc faction was and remains a partner of the People's Front, Samopomich and Batkivshchyna in the parliamentary coalition. 12.12.15 17:57 3 640 79 Ukrainian Politics

136 indictments on charges of crimes against Maidan filed with courts, - Lutsenko The Prosecutor General's Office (PGO) has issued 136 indictments against 190 people charged with the crackdown on Maidan in winter 2013-2014. 23.08.16 23:26 4 209 79 Previously in trend: Investigation of crimes against Maidan

Sooner or Later the Ones Responsible for Imprisoning Lutsenko will go to Jail, Defense Lawyer The case of the former MVD Minister is fraudulent and sooner or later the guilty ones will be brought to trial. 27.08.12 11:30 159 78 Previously in trend: Lutsenko Cases

Dick Durbin: The Ukrainian Authorities Certainly do not Like the Resolution but all Senate Members Condemn Tymoshenko's Imprisonment The US Resolution on Ukraine calling for the release of former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko was passed unanimously in open voting and in compliance with all rules and regulations. 29.09.12 09:23 4 121 78 Previously in trend: Elections 2012 Tymoshenko Case Lutsenko Cases

Coalition Agreement to Be Published Today - Lutsenko The text of the coalition agreement, which should become a reform plan for the factions’ association in the new parliament, will be announced yet on Monday. 27.10.14 15:45 15 339 78 Previously in trend: Snap Parliamentary Elections

Prosecutor general requests Rada’s permission to detain Opposition bloc MP Bakulin Ukraine’s top prosecutor Yurii Lutsenko filed a motion to the parliament to sanction detention of Opposition bloc faction MP Yevhen Bakulin and impose a pre-trial restriction against him. 16.02.18 16:33 22 121 77 Ukrainian Politics

MP Lutsenko: Poroshenko Bloc offers to hold elections in Mariupol Nov. 15 The coalition council has been unable to agree upon the elections in Mariupol and Krasnoarmiisk today and plans to meet tomorrow. Meanwhile, the faction of Petro Poroshenko Bloc party offers to hold elections in Mariupol November 15, 2015. The other factions have taken a time-out. 26.10.15 17:14 7 448 77 Previously in trend: Local elections 2015

Poroshenko signs decree on Lutsenko’s appointment as prosecutor general President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko has signed a decree appointing Yurii Lutsenko the Prosecutor General of Ukraine. 12.05.16 20:08 11 495 77 Previously in trend: Prosecutor General Lutsenko

Yanukovych treason case defining for Ukraine future, - Lutsenko. INFOGRAPHICS Ukraine Prosecutor General Yurii Lutsenko sees the treason case of Ukraine ex-President Viktor Yanukovych as defining for the country’s future. 24.01.19 15:11 4 503 77 Previously in trend: Trial against Yanukovych

Ukraine’s top prosecutor suggests that NSDC considers sanctions against certain Russian individuals, entities Prosecutor General of Ukraine Yurii Lutsenko is going to send a letter to President Petro Poroshenko and the National Security and Defense Council (NSDC) proposing sanctions against certain legal entities and individuals in the Russian Federation due to the armed aggression against the Ukrainian naval forces. 04.12.18 13:54 3 151 76 Previously in trend: Russian aggression against Ukraine Sanctions against Russia

FBI to provide first results of examinations in murder of Sheremet on July 25, - Lutsenko Experts from the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation will provide first data on the examinations under the case of murder of journalist Pavel Sheremet on July 25. 24.07.16 09:41 9 500 76 Previously in trend: Murder of Sheremet

Several MPs may face lifting of immunity following Kharkiv searches, - Lutsenko Prosecutor General Yurii Lutsenko is set to submit several motions to the Verkhovna Rada, asking to lift parliamentary immunity of several deputies involved in the case against Kharkiv Mayor Hennadii Kernes. 15.09.16 18:13 36 106 76 Ukrainian Politics

President's third friend: how Rada appointed new prosecutor general. PHOTOS On Thursday morning, May 12, few imagined that the country would have new prosecutor general by evening. 13.05.16 14:15 42 190 76 Ukrainian Politics

Lutsenko Believes Opposition Has Real Chance to Free Tymoshenko "The total result of the United opposition consists of Batkivschyna and Front Zmin (Yatsenyuk’s party)- that is, 25% for two." 24.11.12 10:47 5 788 76 Ukrainian Politics

Landik testified against odious Party of Regions functionary Yefremov Former Party of Regions MP Volodymyr Landik testified on Thursday before Prosecutor General of Ukraine Yurii Lutsenko in the framework of criminal proceedings against former high-ranking officials, including ex-leader of Party of Regions faction in the Verkhovna Rada Oleksandr Yefremov. 02.06.16 18:56 59 023 76 Ukrainian Politics

Lutsenko issues annual report on probe into Yanukovych regime crimes: "49 verdicts passed, stolen funds confiscated" Prosecutor General of Ukraine Yurii Lutsenko has published the annual report on progress of the investigation into the crimes against the Ukrainians committed by the regime of fugitive ex-President Viktor Yanukovych. 21.11.17 16:30 10 071 76 Ukrainian Politics

Man attempted to buy 200 kg of 'criminal' amber from PGO investigator, - Chief Lutsenko. PHOTO The Prosecutor General's Office of Ukraine (PGO) has detained a man who attempted to bribe a PGO investigator into closing a case and returning 200 kg of amber. 28.10.16 10:29 62 934 75 Previously in trend: Amber mafia Grafters

Russia’s high-ranking officials must be put on international wanted list, Ukraine’s prosecutor general says The international law enforcement institutions (Interpol and Europol) must put Russian senior officials and generals of the Russian Armed Forces on the international wanted list for waging war against Ukraine. 22.08.16 17:55 14 087 74 Incidents

Over 120 searches conducted in Kharkiv in relation to state land misappropriation, - Lutsenko. PHOTOS Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) and Prosecutor General's Office of Ukraine (PGO) conducted over 120 searches in Kharkiv within investigation into misappropriation of 650 hectares of state land. The operation was being prepared over two months. 16.09.16 11:04 64 577 74 Previously in trend: Kharkiv mayor Kernes

Parliament to decide on removal of Novynskyi's immunity, - Rada's procedural committee The Committee on Rules of Parliamentary Procedure and Support to Work of The Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine has re-examined the request by the Prosecutor General's Office (PGO) to allow the criminal prosecution against Opposition Bloc MP Vadym Novynskyi and decided the submitted materials are insufficient for stripping the lawmaker of the immunity. 06.12.16 18:28 20 425 74 Previously in trend: Removal of Novynskyi's immunity

Samopomich agreed to support judicial amendments to Constitution, - MP Lutsenko Poroshenko Bloc faction chairman Yurii Lutsenko claims that, upon the results of talks of the coalition council, Samopomich faction expressed its readiness to support the revised bill No. 3524 on the judicial amendments to the Constitution that provide for the parliament's right to impeach credit of prosecutor general. 27.01.16 18:50 5 359 73 Ukrainian Politics

Prosecutor General ready to file submission on stripping seven deputies of immunity - Lutsenko Leader of the Poroshenko Bloc in the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine Yurii Lutsenko said that the PGO has prepared seven submissions on striping deputies of the parliamentary immunity. 21.04.15 17:31 22 146 73 Ukrainian Politics

NABU says it never asked for Kholodnytskyi's bringing to justice, - journalist The National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine (NABU) says it never addressed PGO with a request to bring to justice the head of the Special Anti-Corruption Prosecutor's Office Nazar Kholodnytskyi. NABU is planning to officially refute the announcement by Prosecutor General Yurii Lutsenko. 02.12.16 10:55 18 356 73 Ukrainian Politics

It is top priority for new prosecutor of Zakarpattia region and his colleagues from Western Ukraine to stop smuggling of forest, - Lutsenko. PHOTOS The main task of Volodymyr Havryliuk, the new prosecutor of the Zakarpattia region, is to stop illegal deforestation of the Carpathian forests. 23.07.16 14:24 18 908 72 Society

"No clandestine torture chambers and unrecorded imprisoned LPR/DPR members found," - Lutsenko on snap inspection of SBU jail Following the snap inspection of the remand prison of the Security Service of Ukraine in Kyiv, Prosecutor General of Ukraine Yurii Lutsenko reported that he found no violations of detention conditions. 06.06.16 22:55 14 791 72 Previously in trend: Prosecutor General Lutsenko

Lutkovska, Lutsenko performed snap inspection of SBU's jail amidst Šimonović's torture allegations. PHOTOS An unscheduled inspection is underway at the pre-trial detention center of the Security Service of Ukraine in Kyiv. The place is attended by Prosecutor General Yurii Lutsenko, Verkhovna Rada Commissioner for Human Rights Valeriia Lutkovska, Ombudsman's Representative Mykhailo Chaplyha, and Head of the SBU Vasyl Hrytsak. 06.06.16 11:35 57 324 72 Ukrainian Politics

Ukraine Prosecutor's Office might serve Russia's Putin and Medvedev with charges Prosecutor General of Ukraine Yurii Lutsenko has announced that PGO is working on possible announcement of suspicion of crimes against Ukraine to Russian President Vladimir Putin and Russian PM Dmitry Medvedev . 14.09.16 10:17 24 728 72 Previously in trend: Russian aggression against Ukraine

Ukraine's ex-Prosecutor General Lutsenko went to United Kingdom to learn English Former Prosecutor General of Ukraine Yurii Lutsenko went to the United Kingdom to take English lessons. 30.09.19 15:18 3 901 72 Previously in trend: Elections in Ukraine and US

Investigators to scrutiny MP Skoryk’s involvement in acts of separatism, Lutsenko says The case against former Governor of the Odesa region, Opposition bloc faction MP Mykola Skoryk will not be limited by charges of involvement in the beating of protesters in Odesa on Feb. 19, 2014. 22.09.16 23:35 14 156 71 Incidents

"Welcome to Ukraine, Viktor Fedorovych, you'll find justice and law," - Lutsenko doubts effectiveness of interviewing Yanukovych via videoconferencing The interviewing of ex-President Viktor Yanukovych via videoconferencing in connection with the events that took place during the Revolution of Dignity is unlikely to provide valuable information. 22.11.16 19:35 10 615 71 Previously in trend: Investigation of crimes against Maidan

Special ivestigation initiated against Shoygu, Glazyev and 12 Russian generals, - Prosecutor General Lutsenko Ukrainian Prosecutor General's Office hopes that Russian Defense Minister Sergey Shoygu will be convicted in absentia in Ukraine in 2017. 23.02.17 13:52 13 391 71 Previously in trend: Russian aggression against Ukraine

Lutsenko proposes banning deputies who face immunity removal from traveling abroad Prosecutor General Yurii Lutsenko asks the Verkhovna Rada to change its internal rules in terms of bringing people's deputies to responsibility in order to avoid further confusion as to respective prosecutorial motions. 11.07.16 23:58 10 585 71 Previously in trend: Prosecutor General Lutsenko

Prosecutor General's Office investigates activities of some ministers of Hroisman's cabinet, - Lutsenko Ukrainian Prosecutor General's Office is investigating activities of several ministers of the acting Cabinet. 03.07.17 12:01 17 036 69 Previously in trend: Fighting corruption in Ukraine

Prosecutor General Lutsenko confirms top anti-corruption prosecutor under investigation Ukraine's Prosecutor General Yurii Lutsenko confirmed that the Prosecutor General's Office launched a probe into Chief of the Specialized Anti-corruption Prosecutor's Office (SAP) Nazar Kholodnytskyi. 27.03.18 12:14 18 695 69 Incidents

Five more Berkut officers who executed Maidan activists detained, - Lutsenko. PHOTOS Prosecutor General of Ukraine Yurii Lutsenko announced that five more officers of former Berkut riot police unit who executed Maidan activists were detained. 24.06.16 19:38 50 651 68 Previously in trend: Investigation of crimes against Maidan

Court arrests "Yanukovych's helipad" in Kyiv downtown, - Lutsenko The Appeals Court of Kyiv has arrested the land plots of more than 2 hectares and real estate facilities constructed on them. The property belongs to Amadeus Ko company. 04.08.17 12:21 31 633 68 Ukrainian Politics

Lutsenko: I have president's carte blanche, no сase will be stalled All high-profile cases falling within PGO's competence will be promptly investigated. 30.05.16 17:12 7 334 67 Previously in trend: Prosecutor General Lutsenko

PGO detained 15th prosecutor red-handed since 2017. PHOTOS The Prosecutor General's Office of Ukraine together with SBU have detained a grafter prosecutor as he accepted a bribe of $5,000. 01.08.17 16:11 36 182 67 Ukrainian Politics

Radical Party MPs show up as law enforcers search house of alleged fraud, - Lutsenko. PHOTOS (updated) The Prosecutor General Office is searching the house of detained resident of Kyiv Petrovskyi suspected of fraud. He swindled large sums of money out of officials for alleged assistance in appointment to certain positions. However, according to Prosecutor General Yurii Lutsenko, a support group arrived at the suspect's house, including several Radical Party MPs. 14.09.16 14:02 83 566 67 Ukrainian Politics

PGO on Maidan case investigation: 380 persons indicted, 49 criminals sentenced The prosecutor's office charged 380 individuals with assaults on Euromaidan participants including lethal ones. The sentences have already been passed against 49 perpetrators. 20.11.17 19:47 8 036 67 Previously in trend: Investigation of crimes against Maidan

Yefremov organized seizure of administration buildings in Luhansk in 2014, - MP Landik Former Party of Regions MP Volodymyr Landik informed media that former leader of Party of Regions parliamentary faction, former governor of the Luhansk region Oleksandr Yefremov was the one who organized seizure of administration buildings in Luhansk on April 29, 2014. 03.08.16 12:17 36 961 67 Previously in trend: Arrest of Yefremov

PGO drafted requests to lift immunity of MPs Bobov, Deidei, and Lozovyi, - Prosecutor General Lutsenko Prosecutor General's Office of Ukraine has drafted requests to the Verkhovna Rada to lift immunity of MPs Hennadii Bobov (Vidrodzhennia group), Yevhen Deidei (People's Front faction), and Andrii Lozovyi (Radical Party faction). 19.05.17 17:20 31 266 66 Previously in trend: E-declarations of senior officials

US pledges to give Ukraine back most of funds stolen by ex-PM Lazarenko, - Lutsenko The relevant United States agencies have assured Ukrainian authorities that the most of the funds embezzled by ex-Prime Minister of Ukraine Pavlo Lazarenko will be transferred to Kyiv if the court decides to confiscate them. 22.05.17 15:52 23 561 66 Ukrainian Politics