17:09 29.01.2015

Third wave of lustration in Ukraine will start in March, will concern civil ministries - Petrenko

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Third wave of lustration in Ukraine will start in March, will concern civil ministries - Petrenko

The second stage of lustration will be completed in the near future, while the third wave of lustration will begin in March this year and concern, in particular, civilian ministries, and then lustration will be held at the local level, Justice Minister Pavlo Petrenko has said.

According to him, the first stage of lustration has completed and at present the second stage is being conducted.

"The matter concerns Ukraine's Ministry of Justice, at which 1,360 civil servants are currently passing lustration checks, the Interior Ministry, the Fiscal Service and the Security Service of Ukraine. These checks will be completed soon, and we already have first results," the minister said at a meeting of the Cabinet of Ministers.

Petrenko noted that some of the dismissed employees would appeal these decisions in court according to the law on lustration, while assuring that the ministry is accompanying the consideration of these cases in court and strictly monitoring the implementation of the law by the authorities, which made the decision to dismiss these persons.

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