The Prosecutor General's Office of Ukraine (PGO) has registered and added to the single register of pre-trial investigations a statement of former Ukrainian Interior Minister Yuriy Lutsenko about crimes allegedly committed by First Deputy Prosecutor General Renat Kuzmin and investigator Serhiy Voichenko.

"A statement made by Lutsenko on December 28 last year has been registered and added to the single register of pre-trial investigations," the PGO told Interfax-Ukraine.

The PGO also said that Lutsenko, who is serving his sentence at the Mena Penal Colony in Chernihiv region, has been informed on the issue. A relevant decision on the statement will be taken within the term envisaged by the law, the PGO said.

Lutsenko has repeatedly said Kuzmin and Voychenko should be charged with fabricating the criminal case against him.

On December 26, 2012, Lutsenko asked Prosecutor General of Ukraine Viktor Pshonka to punish Kuzmin and Voichenko for issuing an instruction on taking him into custody and arresting him.

Kyiv's Pechersky District Court found Lutsenko guilty of a number of counts of abuse of office and sentenced him to four years in prison on February 27, 2012. Lutsenko was also charged with interfering in an investigative case concerning Valentyn Davydenko, the driver of former SBU First Deputy Chief Volodymyr Satsiuk, as part of an investigation into the poisoning of then presidential candidate Viktor Yuschenko on August 17, 2012 by Pechersky Court. The court sentenced Lutsenko to two years in prison.