Officials of General Office of Public Prosecutor conduct
a search in the apartment of ex-Interior Minister Yuri Lutsenko. Four officials
started the search at 6 am. According to Lutsenko’s press secretary, his lawyer
is kept out the apartment.
Prosecutor’s Office official Serhiy Denisenko informed
that the department examines facts of the criminal case on illegal distribution
of guns by Interior Ministry officials.
One
of the investigators, searching the apartment of the leader of the civil movement
“People self-defense” Yuri Lutsenko, has served a subpoena on interrogation to
the General Office of Public Prosecutor for 3 p.m. today. The people’s deputy
Mykola Katerynchuk told the journalist.
He also noted that Lutsenko had asked the people’s
deputies to make a request to the General Office of Public Prosecutor to
protect his constitutional rights.
People’s
deputy Davyd Zhvaniya said that the investigators, who search the apartment of
ex-minister of the Interior Yuriy Lutsenko, prepare for confiscation documents,
money and prize pistol.
According
to him, there are driving license, identity card of the deputy, identity card
of the Minister of the Interior, and even Comsomol party membership card among
documents. Two bundles of money of 50 and 100 notes and small sum of money in
dollars are preparing for confiscation.
Zhvaniya
assumed that the General Prosecutor’s Office tapped Lutsenko’s phone, as they
knew his movements.
search warrant contains a demand to check presence of
Israeli passport and office furniture with five computers in the apartment, allegedly
given to Lutsenko for distribution of a prize pistol.
