Independent MP Viktor Chumak has said that he handed over a letter to Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko signed by 40 parliamentarians with a call to publicly confirm or deny reports of his abuses.

"Together with the Criminal Code, which I presented to the president, I handed over to him personally a letter signed by 40 people's deputies, including the most rated presidential candidate, Batkivschyna leader Yulia Tymoshenko," Chumak wrote on his Facebook page on Monday.

The MP also posted copies of the letter and signatures. Lawmakers ask the head of state to hold a press conference or organize an open meeting with people's deputies. They call on Poroshenko to personally confirm or deny the report about Poroshenko's possession of undeclared property, corporate rights and assets in offshore jurisdictions and tax evasion in Ukraine.

Parliamentarians also asked Poroshenko to respond to information about possession of undeclared grain and starch business in Russia, about the abuse of power by the president to win tenders for the supply for the Ukrainian army at inflated prices of equipment manufactured by enterprises controlled by him.

In addition, the questions concern the Rotterdam+ scheme for the formation of electricity prices, the repair of the Hetman Sahaidachny frigate at Kuznya on Rybalsky Plant, the operation of the Lipetsk confectionery factory in Russia, and the receipt of Poroshenko's profits from it.

People's deputies are also interested in confirmation or refutation of reports about the bribery of people's deputies before the voting, in particular on personnel matters - when Yuriy Lutsenko was appointed prosecutor general, about obtaining an unjustified benefit for Oleksandr Onyshchenko's registration as a candidate for deputy.

The letter also sets out questions regarding the president's establishment of control over the National Agency on Corruption Prevention, the State Bureau of Investigation, the Prosecutor General's Office (PGO), National Commission for the State Regulation of Energy, Housing and Utilities Services, the heads of local state administrations, and the courts.

In addition, in the letter, people's deputies called unsatisfactory the answers of the presidential press service to certain cases.