Ukrainian anti-corruption prosecutor's office prepares petition on MP Onyshchenko

The Specialized Anti-Corruption Prosecutor's Office of Ukraine has already prepared and submitted to the Prosecutor General's Office a draft petition regarding Ukrainian oligarch and MP Oleksandr Onyshchenko.

The Head of the Anti-Corruption Prosecutor's Office, Nazar Kholodnytsky, told this to journalists in the parliamentary lobby, an Ukrinform correspondent reports.

"I have the draft petition. It should be submitted by the Prosecutor General, so I have handed it over to the Prosecutor-General," he said.

According to Kholodnytsky, draft petition on Onyshchenko is based on three articles of the Criminal Code of Ukraine: creation of a criminal organization, use of revenues obtained by criminal means and embezzlement.

The representatives of the Bloc of Petro Poroshenko faction and the People’s Front faction confirmed the readiness of the factions to vote in favor of depriving MP Onyshchenko of parliamentary immunity and giving consent to his detention and arrest.

ol