16:24 14.07.2017

Dobkin given notice of suspicion – PGO

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Dobkin given notice of suspicion – PGO

Member of Parliament from the Opposition Bloc parliamentary faction Mykhailo Dobkin has said he was given a notice of suspicion at the Prosecutor General's Office of Ukraine on Friday, July 14.

"I have been served with a suspicion notice under the Article 'Abuse of Office' and Article 190 'Fraud.' There is no Article 191 [misappropriation, embezzlement or possession by abuse of official position] mentioned by the Prosecutor General [Yuriy Lutsenko]. This suggests that he did not read what he had signed," Dobkin told journalists after visiting the Prosecutor General's Office of Ukraine on Friday.

The MP added that it was not Lutsenko who handed the suspicion notice over to him, but the acting prosecutor general - his first deputy Dmytro Storozhuk.

As earlier reported, on July 13, the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine backed three requests submitted by Prosecutor General Lutsenko about giving its consent to the prosecution, detention and arrest of Opposition Bloc MP Mykhailo Dobkin.

On June 29, Lutsenko submitted a request to the Verkhovna Rada, seeking consent to prosecute, detain and arrest Dobkin. In his words, Dobkin's actions have "signs of deliberate collusion of a group of persons for abuse of office and assistance to fraud in order to acquire 78 hectares of land in Kharkiv with an estimated value of over UAH 220 million."

According to the Prosecutor General's Office, Dobkin, acting deliberately in collusion with a group of persons, abusing his official position in the interests of third parties, committed a criminal offense under Part 2 of Article 28, Part 2 of Article 364 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine (as amended by the law dated April 5, 2001). In addition, Dobkin contributed to the implementation of criminal intent to seize land in territory of Kharkiv by deception, that is, committed a criminal offense under Part 5 of Article 27, Part 4 of Article 190 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine.

On July 12, the Verkhovna Rada regulations committee recognized as legitimate and motivated only one presentation by Prosecutor General Lutsenko seeking Rada's consent to prosecute Opposition Bloc faction member Dobkin.

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