Disgraced former Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych has filed a complain to Kyiv's Shevchenkivsky District National Police office about alleged administrative offices made by the chief of Ukraine's Prosecutor General's Office (PGO) Yuriy Lutsenko in connection with the latter's remarks made during a press briefing on August 18.

The petition, a copy of which Interfax-Ukraine has obtained from Yanukovych's lawyer Vitaliy Serdiuk, Yanukovych claims that Lutsenko committed an administrative office, as per Article 173 of Administrative Offences Code of Ukraine (minor hooliganism, that is, engaging in name-calling in a public place, making insulting comments about citizens and other similar actions).

Yanukovych also appealed the disciplinary commission of prosecutors in connection with "a rude violation of the principle of presumed innocence" committed by Lutsenko. In addition, Sediuk forwarded to the PGO a statement about ensuring a transparent and objective review of his client's petition.

As earlier reported, on August 18 during a briefing Lutsenko said that he supports conducting an in absentia interrogation of Yanukovych on the territory of Ukraine. Lutsenko noted that he did not flee (Ukraine) when he was a suspect, and, despite threats, did not run away when Yanukovych "ordered the political case against him and threw him behind bars."

"Yanukovych turned out to be a wimp, a traitor, who usurped power, tore the country apart, destroyed the Armed Forces of Ukraine and the country's law-enforcement agencies. He then fled to the country of the neighboring country and from there called for armed aggression against Ukraine," Lutsenko said.