Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych has signed law No. 657-VII amending the Tax Code of Ukraine concerning the accounting and registration of taxpayers on Friday, according to the president's press service.

The Verkhovna Rada, Ukraine's parliament, passed the law on October 24.

The approved law contained an amendment, stating that "if a person has the right to permanent residence in a foreign country, such a person is considered to be one who does not live in Ukraine."

The UDAR parliamentary faction said that the passing of this amendment was a provocation against its leader Vitali Klitschko that could prevent him from running for president in 2015.

On the same day, at the evening sitting of the parliament, Klitschko announced his intention to run for president of Ukraine.

Amendment No. 76 to the law, submitted by a member of the Batkivschyna parliamentary faction, Ihor Brychenko, was approved. Brychenko, however, said he had nothing to do with the amendment and appealed to the prosecutor's office about the alleged falsification of the amendment to the law.

Nevertheless, a handwriting examination established that it had been Brychenko who had signed the draft amendment to the Tax Code.

Earlier, UDAR faction MP Oksana Prodan demanded that the Prosecutor General's Office investigate this issue. Criminal proceedings were launched under Part 1, Article 351 (creating artificial barriers to the work of people's deputies, providing them with deliberately misleading information) and Part 3, Article 358 (the forgery of official documents).

The Prosecutor General's Office instructed the capital's police to investigate into the case.

On November 7, it was reported that Kyiv's police had closed the criminal case and sent the materials of the case to the prosecutor's office.