The new Prosecutor General Viktor Shokin was removed from the post of Prosecutor of the Donetsk region and the head of the Main investigative Department of the Prosecutor General of Ukraine.

"By order of the Prosecutor General Victor" from the position of Prosecutor of the Donetsk region dismissed Nicholas Frantowski. Also dismissed the chief of the investigative Department of the Prosecutor General of Ukraine Svyatoslav Lagunak ", -

The eleventh of February, the head of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko has signed an order appointing Victor " on the office of the Prosecutor General of the country. Before the Parliament on the proposal of the President consented to the dismissal Vitaly Yarema from the post of Prosecutor General, who had held this position since June of last year.

Yarema was one of the Ukrainian bureaucrats who criticized the law on lustration. He stated that the law is unconstitutional and the requirements of international law. Poroshenko signed into law in October, under its action is subject to 1 million different kinds of bureaucrats, public servants, employees of the police organization. In the framework of the legislation were dismissed and 138 Ukrainian prosecutors.

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