Rada resigned the Prosecutor General of Ukraine

The Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine spoke out for the resignation of the current Prosecutor General Viktor Shokin, Ligabusinessinfo reports . 289 deputies voted for, against - six.

On Tuesday, it became known that Shokin fired the deputy prosecutor’s prosecutor David Sakvarelidze.

In mid -February, the prosecutor general wrote a letter of resignation. On February 19, the idea of ​​the resignation of Shokin was entered into parliament. He sent a letter to Rada with a request to consider the issue without him.

Shokin was appointed Prosecutor General on February 10, 2015.

On February 16, President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko called on to resign Shokin . “Viktor Shokin introduced those reforms that the GPU resisted for decades: depriving the prosecutor's office of general supervision, creating the National Anti -Corruption Bureau and the State Bureau of Investigation, and the like. This is on the one hand,” the president explained. “On the other hand, the GPU, unfortunately, could not enlist the trust of society. And that is, on the agenda, the issue of resigning the General Prosecutor is worth it.”

In early February, The Wall Street Journal, citing European officials, reported that the European Union was dissatisfied with the progress of the fight against corruption in Ukraine . Since Kyiv has not yet been held accountable for the associates of the former president Viktor Yanukovych, the EU can cancel sanctions against them, sources said.

The interlocutors of WSJ noted a low rating of the head of the government of Ukraine Arseniy Yatsenyuk against the backdrop of his accusations and his circle of corruption. In addition, they expressed discontent due to the unwillingness of Poroshenko to dismiss Shokin.

In July 2015, employees of the General Prosecutor's Office of Ukraine (GPU) Vladimir Shapakin and Alexander Kornytsets were detained upon receipt of the next part of a bribe in the amount of 100 thousand dollars (the total amount was supposed to amount to 200 thousand) from entrepreneurs who were engaged in illegal hydraulic spacing of sand near Kiev. Shapakin and Korniyets undertook to “resolve” the issues of entrepreneurs, against which a criminal case was previously instituted. During a search of the house and at work, the prosecutors took money for a total of about 500 thousand dollars, securities, weapons and jewelry.

The investigation of this case was accompanied by a number of scandals. Investigators of the General Inspectorate of the Prosecutor General’s Office, in the production of which it was located, repeatedly declared pressure on them from the leadership of the GPU. The SBU also stated that the Prosecutor General’s Office was pressure on the investigators.