Enough evidence gathered to strip six MPs of immunity

10:33, 03.07.2017 1 min read

The Prosecutor General's Office of Ukraine has collected enough evidence to strip six people's deputies of Ukraine of immunity, requests on whom have been submitted to the Verkhovna Rada, Prosecutor General of Ukraine Yuriy Lutsenko has said.

"We have enough evidence to convince unbiased deputies in the need to remove immunity and continue the pretrial investigation," the Prosecutor General said in an interview with Channel 5 on Sunday evening.

He said that documents, video and audio recordings would be demonstrated during the consideration of requests for the removal of immunity.

As it was reported, On June 21, the Verkhovna Rada received requests for removal of parliamentary immunity from prosecution from five lawmakers: Andriy Lozovy (the Radical Party faction), Oles Dovhy (the People's Will group), Yevhen Deidei and Maksym Poliakov (both of the People's Front faction) and Boryslav Rozenblat (the Petro Poroshenko Bloc faction).