The state Bureau of investigation of Ukraine refused to close the case under the criminal code against the former President of Petro Poroshenko. About it, said " Ukrainian news ".

According to the lawyer Poroshenko, the defense asked to close the case involving possible improper influence on the conduct of the competition for the selection of candidates to the members of the High Council of justice, the state Bureau denied the motion.

yesterday in the Ministry told that he would ask the Prosecutor General to sign up to the Verkhovna Rada with a request for attention from the former President to justice under the criminal code and the withdrawal of his privacy.

Poroshenko is suspected of abuse of official position, and likewise the actions aimed at the seizure of state power. The maximum punishment under these articles - five and eight years of sentence respectively.

earlier it was stated that the ex-President of Ukraine appears in 13 criminal cases, of which 12 passes as a witness. But his lawyer said that for small episodes, the former head of the country has not yet been summoned for questioning and the procedural status he has.

Himself Poroshenko said that he is responsible before the Ukrainian people and is not afraid of persecution.

in early autumn, the Ukrainian Parliament adopted the draft law on the abolition of parliamentary privacy, and the head of Vladimir Zelensky signed it.

According to the document of the Constitution of Ukraine the norm, which makes it possible to bring MP to justice under the criminal code, to detain or imprison without the consent of the Verkhovna Rada. While elected officials, as before, will not bear legal responsibility for the results of the expression of the will or phrase in Parliament, with the exception of liability for verbal humiliation and slander.

These changes will take effect from 1 January, and are still elected officials retain immunity. However, in the fraction of "servant of the people" has already told that he will support removing it from Poroshenko.



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