15:47 15.09.2017

Court arrests ex-Minister of Justice Lavrynovych until Nov 2

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Court arrests ex-Minister of Justice Lavrynovych until Nov 2

Kyiv's Pechersky District Court has remanded former Justice Minister of Ukraine Oleksandr Lavrynovych to pretrial custody for 60 days.

The court made its ruling on Friday, September 15, satisfying a request by state prosecutors, who requested his arrest on charges of participating in the illegal seizure of state power in 2010.

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.

"Consistent with Part 1, Article 109 of the Ukrainian Criminal Code, former President Yanukovych and former Justice Minister Lavrynovych have been notified of the suspicion that they conspired with other persons and seized power, in particular, by means of illegal modification of the Ukrainian constitution without the consent of the Ukrainian Verkhovna Rada: the text of the Ukrainian constitution in the 1996 edition was added to the unified state register of normative and legal acts and officially published," Lutsenko said on his Facebook page.

The special investigations department of the Ukrainian Prosecutor General's Office is probing "the 2010 coup, which resulted in a power grab through unconstitutional expansion of the Ukrainian president's competence and limiting of the role and competence of the parliament and the government," Lutsenko said.

As known, the Ukrainian Constitutional Court restored the presidential-parliamentary form of government by reinstating a number of presidential powers. The court essentially enforced the 1996 Ukrainian constitution.

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