Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada, Ukraine's parliament, Volodymyr Rybak has sent an inquiry to the Higher Administrative Court of Ukraine on depriving MP Serhiy Vlasenko, who is a defense lawyer of former Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko, of his parliamentary seat.

"They submitted a falsified instruction of the regulations committee to Rybak and yesterday Rybak signed the inquiry and sent it to the Higher Administrative Court," Batkivschyna parliamentary faction MP Oleksandr Turchynov said at a press conference on Friday.

According to him, a decision of the parliamentary regulations committee was falsified on Wednesday, February 28, to deprive Vlasenko of his parliamentary seat due to his working as an advocate.

Turchynov said that the parliamentary committee's instruction was falsified, as the committee never held a meeting. He added that the document was signed by eight members of the Regions Party faction and one member of the Communist Party faction.

The deputy chairmen of the Verkhovna Rada Regulations Committee, Andriy Pyshny (Batkivschyna faction) and Valeriy Karpuntsov (UDAR faction), were the first to notice the instruction. They said that they were at their workplaces on Wednesday and had known nothing about the committee's meeting.

According to Turchynov, the instruction was falsified at 2200 on Wednesday.

On February 22, Vlasenko said that he had appealed to the Council of Lawyers of Ukraine to cancel his advocacy certificate in order to avoid any "political insinuation."

He noted that, according to the current legislation, a lawyer's right for advocacy is cancelled from the day of filing an appeal to cancel his advocacy certificate. He added that still he has the right to defend Tymoshenko.