President Petro Poroshenko has signed a law adopted today which allows the appointment of a person without a law degree as the prosecutor-general.
The law introducing amendments to…
Ukraine's Verkhovna Rada on Thursday, 12 May put on the agenda and passed bill No 4645, which allows the head of the Petro Poroshenko Bloc (PPB) faction, Yuriy Lutsenko, to be appointed…
The Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) is conducting a search at the Kyiv headquarters of Ukrhazvydobuvannya, Ukraine’s largest gas company.
Back in February, prosecutors searched…
On 10 May, parliament failed to pass bill No 4669 which would open the way to Yuriy Lutsenko to become prosecutor-general.
It was supported by 224 MPs, just two votes short of the…
Verkhovna Rada Speaker Andriy Parubiy Tuesday has said he will put on the agenda a bill that does not require the prosecutor-general to have previous job experience as prosecutor and…
2,818 Ukrainian soldiers have been killed since 2014, of which 88 died in the first three months of this year. Seven soldiers were killed in 2013; 1,600 in 2014; 1,130 in 2015, and…
The head of the Petro Poroshenko Bloc faction in the parliament Yuriy Lutsenko refused to become prosecutor-general.
"It is a good day for me as the bill that would give me the opportunity…
Acting Prosecutor-General Yuriy Sevruk has told the Ukrainian News agency that he will dismiss Odesa regional prosecutor Mykola Sevruk already on 15 April since the vetting procedure…
The leader of the Petro Poroshenko Bloc faction in the Ukrainian parliament, Yuriy Lutsenko, has stated preparedness to take the top post at the Prosecutor-General's Office (PGO).…
An investigator of the Prosecutor-General's Office (PGO) anti-corruption department on 10 April handed a notice of suspicion to Vitaliy Kasko, a former reformist prosecutor…
The Prosecutor-General's Office, as well as the National Anticorruption Bureau of Ukraine (NABU), have no jurisdiction to open an investigation against President Petro Poroshenko…
President Petro Poroshenko has stated that a new prosecutor-general of Ukraine will be highly professional, responsible, well-trusted.
He said this speaking at the Forum "Ukraine…
A prosecutor of the Odesa regional prosecutor's office, Oleksandr Modebadze, who was appointed to his post by Deputy Prosecutor-General Davit Sakvarelidze, has been caught red-handed…
Prosecutor-General Viktor Shokin dismissed his deputy, prosecutor of Odesa region David Sakvarelidze by the decree as of 29 March, the Prosecutor General’s Office of Ukraine website…
The Ukrainian parliament has accepted Prosecutor-General Viktor Shokin's voluntary resignation.
Draft resolution No 4122 was supported by 289 MPs. Shokin did not attend the parliament…