Interior Minister of Ukraine Vitaliy Zakharchenko has said he sees no need to create an individual structure to investigate economic crimes as part of the reform of the law enforcement agencies.

The minister said this in an interview with the Expert magazine, the text of which has been posted on the ministry's official Web site.

"What it will be called, the finance police, or something else, isn't a top-priority question. Following the new Criminal Procedural Code's coming into force, the police conduct inquiries into all economic crimes. That's why I stick to the point about the reasonability of consolidating this direction in the frames of the ministry. Our state now has five departments that deal with the economic crimes: the Security Service, the PGO, the State Service for Combating Economic Crime, the Directorate for Combating Organized Crime, and the tax police," the minister said.

According to him, only the State Service for Combating Economic Crime has to investigate economic crimes within the structure of the Interior Ministry.

Asked if he supports the idea of creating a financial police, Zakharchenko said: "In my opinion, a financial police already exists. There are all necessary functions in the structure of the State Service for Combating Economic Crime. And there is an anticorruption bureau that investigates corruption. Somebody has to do this. But there is no need to create new structures.