12:48 22.09.2017

Chief prosecutor signs notice of suspicion for MP Dovhy

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Chief prosecutor signs notice of suspicion for MP Dovhy

Head of Ukraine's Prosecutor General's Office (PGO) Yuriy Lutsenko has signed a notice of suspicion for Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine deputy Oles Dovhy (Will of the People group), PGO spokeswoman Larysa Sarhan has said.

"The prosecutor general signed the suspicion notice for Dovhy," Sarhan told the Kyiv-based Interfax-Ukraine news agency.

Later, Sarhan added on her Facebook page that MP Dovhy was the only one who did not get a suspicion notice after the parliament considered a motion to strip him of parliamentarian immunity in early July.

"I was waiting until the Specialized Anti-Corruption Prosecutor's Office signed it. Kept waiting and [finally] decided to do it on my own," the Prosecutor General added in a Facebook commentary.

Lutsenko earlier said Dovhy is a suspect in a criminal case on the illegal allocation by the Kyiv city council of land in the Zhukov Island wildlife sanctuary on the southern outskirts of Kyiv and may be prosecuted under Part 2 of Article 364 of the Criminal Code (abuse of power and office).

Dovhy has said law-enforcement agencies are attempting to hold him accountable for the decision of a collegial organ – the Kyiv City Council. He said he did not sign the Kyiv City Council decision, and was only authorized to rubber stamp decisions taken by the body.

Ukraine's Parliament on July 11, 2017, approved the PGO request to bring criminal charges against Dovhy, who asked colleagues in the Rada to remove his immunity from prosecution.

On July 14 head of Ukraine's Specialized Anti-Corruption Prosecutor's Office (SAPO) Nazar Kholodnytsky said investigatory actions involving Dovhy had been undertaken.

In August, National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine chief Artem Sytnyk said suspicion of Dovhy had not yet been agreed upon.

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