Prosecutor General of Ukraine Yuriy Lutsenko has said that the next week he will submit to the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine the motion on giving consent to the stripping of immunity from Opposition Bloc People's Deputy Yevhen Bakulin, on his detention and arrest.

"At this stage, it is also planned to submit to the Verkhovna Rada a request to authorize the prosecution of Mr. Bakulin," he said at a briefing in Kyiv on Friday.

Lutsenko specified that the presentation would be submitted to the Rada next week and reviewed in due course.

According to the Prosecutor General, Bakulin is a Verkhovna Rada member, but he has not visited the territory of Ukraine for a long time. "But nevertheless, for any further steps - suspicion, putting him on the wanted list - we need permission from the Verkhovna Rada," said Lutsenko.

The Prosecutor General specified that the submission would concern a request for criminal prosecution, in particular under the articles "the creation of an organized criminal group" and "the plunder of public funds."

"We will request stripping him of immunity, his detention and arrest," he said.

As reported, in July 2017, Lutsenko said that Bakulin might become the next people's deputy, against whom the Prosecutor General would ask for stripping of immunity in the case of the so-called Boiko's 'oil rigs case' (the case of the purchase of overpriced rigs for oil and gas production on the Black Sea shelf, in which co-chairman of the Opposition Bloc faction Yuriy Boiko is allegedly involved).

Bakulin served as a chairman of Ukraine's Naftogaz board in 2007, and also from 2010 until 2014.