Former Ukrainian Justice Minister Oleksandr Lavrynovych has been served a suspicion notice, a document stating that he is accused of seizing state power, when he visited the Ukrainian Prosecutor General's Office, Lavrynovych said.

"That was an investigatory action, a handover of the suspicion [notice]. They don't ask any questions," Lavrynovych told reporters following his visit to the Prosecutor General's Office on Thursday.

"All in all, what has been claimed is the seizure of state power. Seizure rather than a constitutional coup... It turns out it was me who seized [power]," he added.

However, Lavrynovych noted that the suspicion notice he was given contained no word combinations like "forcible seizure".

"What I have read I understand is a text that purports to present [a summary of] an applied scientific research in the field of constitutional law. And I say it without irony," Lavrynovych went on.

"Some links to primary source materials there do not correlate with one another and there is a certain substitution of notions," he said.

"In this regard, I can say that the main reason why I am here today is that I must read this suspicion notice. This interpretation states that any Constitutional Court decision may not be implemented by anybody but the person it concerns. This research paper determines the person who has violated the Constitution on amending it as the only person that may correct the mistake of their own. If a court establishes the illegality of an action, then it is the person who has committed the offence of law that must fix it," Lavrynovych explained.

Investigative bodies are trying to issue an interpretation like "criminal authorities came [to power] and wanted to get their hands on everything - everything there is in Ukraine - and to that end, they brought back the Constitution of 1996," he said.

A lawyer for Lavrynovych said, for his part, that the issue of selecting a measure of restraint against his client was never raised during his visit to the Prosecutor General's Office.

Ukrainian Prosecutor General Yuriy Lutsenko said on September 6 that former President Viktor Yanukovych and Lavrynovych had been notified of being suspected, along with other individuals, of seizing power in Ukraine through a constitutional coup in 2010.

As is known, Ukraine's Constitutional Court then reinstated a parliamentary-presidential form of government in the country, giving some presidential powers back to the president. On adopting that decision, the Constitutional Court eventually enacted the Constitution of Ukraine dated 1996.

On October 1, 2010, the text of the 'new' constitution was published in a special issue of the Official Gazette of Ukraine bulletin.