Checks of officials under lustration law to start on November 1, says Ukrainian PM
Checks of senior officials and civil servants in accordance with the law on lustration will start on November 1, Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseniy Yatseniuk has said.
"Then (after the dismissal of 39 high-ranking officials) the government will issue a decree to approve a plan of inspections in accordance with the law on lustration," he said opening a government meeting on Thursday.
"The prime minister, the first deputy prime minister, deputy prime ministers, ministers, heads of central executive agencies, which are not members of the Cabinet, the governor of the National Bank, the head of the CEC, members of the National Council on Television and Radio Broadcasting, chiefs of the Foreign Intelligence Service and the State Guard Department, the head of the presidential administration, the head of the Cabinet's secretariat, members of national commissions will be first to fall under the inspections which will start on November 1," Yatseniuk said.
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