Former acting prosecutor general of Ukraine Oleh Makhnitsky has been called in for questioning as a witness into the criminal case on abuse of power or office by the officials of Prosecutor General's Office of Ukraine who hampered to investigate into the criminal cases on the registered facts of opposing rallies, PGO said.

"Makhnitsky Oleh…is called in for questioning to the chief investigator for special cases of the PGO Main Investigative Directorate as a witness into the criminal offence under Part 3 Article 365 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine," reads a report from the PGO.

The PGO reported that through December 2015 by February 2016 investigators were making efforts to call on the phone number that belonged to Makhnitsky to invite the latter to questioning as the witness, but all the attempts were in vain since it appeared a mobile operator doesn't serve such telephone number.

The same misfortune happened with sent by prosecution agencies notices for questioning to the places of residence of Makhnitsky in Lviv and Kyiv. The notices were sent back since such a person doesn't live under the mentioned addresses.

Makhnitsky was acting prosecutor general through February 25 to June 18, 2014.