Prosecutors are checking the reports by Natalia Okunska, the former wife of the defense counsel of former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko, MP Serhiy Vlasenko, that he had allegedly repeatedly beaten her.

"The situation with Vlasenko has nothing to do with his political activities and is not connected with his law practice. There are several complaints from Vlasenko's ex-wife who alleges that she was repeatedly beaten up by her ex-husband," First Deputy Prosecutor General of Ukraine Renat Kuzmin said on Monday during a meeting with oppositional lawmakers.

According to him, these complaints were sent to various agencies, and under the provisions of the new Criminal Procedure Code, the PGO will now look into them.

"All these reports [Okunska's claims] have been added to the single register of pre-trial investigations, and are being checked," the first deputy prosecutor general has said.

As reported, on January 21 Vlasenko stated that he might be arrested soon. The MP said that the cases against him were opened on the non-fulfillment of court rulings and banditry.

Vlasenko also said that he was accused of the non-fulfillment of court rulings under a ruling of Kyiv's Pechersky District Court on the partition of his and his ex-wife Natalia Okunska's joint property.

On January 25, he said that experts of Kyiv Forensic Medicine Bureau were falsifying evidence in a criminal case against him.

"Today Kyiv Forensic Medicine Bureau is making a falsified forensic medicine examination on the events that occurred two years ago and are streamlining it with the data needed by the Prosecutor General's Office to open criminal cases against me," Vlasenko said.

"I mean alleged physical damage allegedly caused by me… Now they are falsifying [a case on] injuries of moderate severity under articles of the Criminal Code," he said.

Vlasenko added that pressure is being posed on witnesses in the case to make them change their testimony against him.

"I know for sure that the witnesses in the case, who two years ago gave absolutely fair and correct testimony, today say absolutely the opposite things under pressure from [First Deputy Prosecutor General] Renat Kuzmin. They are doing this in order to play a scene at the Verkhovna Rada [Ukraine's parliament] on February 20, to draw me to criminal responsibility," Vlasenko said.