12:51 03.07.2017

New request could be submitted to Rada on MP Novinsky's economic crimes

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New request could be submitted to Rada on MP Novinsky's economic crimes

Prosecutor General of Ukraine Yuriy Lutsenko has said that a request on People's Deputy from Opposition Bloc faction Vadym Novinsky could be submitted to the Verkhovna Rada.

"We continue investigating pretrial inquiry into People's Deputy Novinsky. And now we are analyzing his other actions, which are likely to lead us to a second appeal to the Verkhovna Rada that will be connected with economic crimes," Lutsenko said at a meeting of the parliamentary committee on Monday, answering the question why, after Rada provided permission to remove immunity from Novinsky, he still hasn't been served with charges.

The Ukrainian Prosecutor General's Office suspects Novinsky of aiding illegal imprisonment of Metropolitan Oleksandr (Drabynko) of Pereyaslav-Khmelnytsky and Vyshnevsky of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church (Moscow Patriarchate) organized by the former Ukrainian government, as well as complicity in abuse of office or powers by an official of a law enforcement agency.

On December 8, 2016, the Verkhovna Rada satisfied the motion of the Prosecutor General to give consent to prosecute Novinsky. The parliament partially stripped Novinsky of his parliamentary immunity upholding the prosecutor general's motion and permitting criminal prosecution against him. However, law enforcement agencies will be able neither to apprehend nor use a restrictive measure in the form of arrest against Novinsky, because this requires further permission from the Verkhovna Rada.

On February 15, 2017, Lutsenko said that the Prosecutor General's Office would soon notify Novinsky of suspicion and send his case to court. "With regard to Novinsky, we received very important data about an attempt to poison Metropolitan Volodymyr," he said.

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