Kyiv's Oberig universal medical clinic is ready to accept Ukraine's former interior minister Yuriy Lutsenko for planned surgery on January 21, the press service for the Ukrainian State Penitentiary Service has reported.

"On January 16, the administration of the Mena Penal Colony (No. 91) familiarized Yuriy Lutsenko, in the presence of his lawyer (Iryna Lutsenko), with a letter from Kyiv's Oberig universal medical clinic on the readiness of this establishment to accept Yuriy Lutsenko for a recommended medical procedure on January 21," the report says.

The penitentiary service assured that appropriate measures will be taken to transfer Lutsenko to the clinic.

According to earlier reports, Lutsenko agreed to undergo surgery to remove an adhesion in his intestines in late December 2012. The surgery was expected to take place in early January. Larysa Sarhan, press officer for the People's Self-Defense Party, said Lutsenko will be treated in a private clinic in Kyiv at his own expense.

On January 9, it became known that Lutsenko will be ready to be transferred to the Kyiv clinic Oberig on January 13-15.

Lutsenko has been serving a sentence for several crimes involving abuse of office in the Mena colony, Chernihiv region, since late August 2012.