Lutsenko appoints Roman Hovda to head Kyiv City Prosecutor's office
Ukraine's Prosecutor General Yuriy Lutsenko has appointed ex-deputy prosecutor general Roman Hovda head of the Kyiv prosecutor's office.
"By order of the Prosecutor General of Ukraine, Roman Hovda is appointed to the position of head of the Kyiv city prosecutor's office," the press service of the Prosecutor General's Office (PGO) has said.
While formally introducing Hovda to Kyiv prosecutors on Wednesday, Lutsenko focused attention on the critical criminality level in the capital and emphasized the need to coordinate the work of all law enforcement agencies and structures to fight crime.
Lutsenko said priorities for Kyiv city prosecutors included the review of all current and past criminal cases relating to the activities of former city officials.
"There is a big fish swimming in the Kyiv reservoir, where so many cases were buried, and not just during the term of "spaceman" team headed up by former Kyiv Mayor Leonid Chernovetsky.
Lutsenko also assigned the task of checking the activities of communal production enterprises in the capital.
"Those individuals who ripped off billions of hryvnias should be punished, no matter where they live," Lutsenko said.