Oleg Sukhov
Ukraine’sForeign
Ministry annulled 230 diplomatic and service passports in 2014-2015 issued to
lawmakers and government officials, many of whom were allies of ex-President
Viktor Yanukovych.
The ministry, which made the announcement on Jan. 26,
attributed the annulment to a May 2015 presidential decree under which such
passports cease to be valid in certain cases.
Specifically, they are annulled if they are not
returned to the ministry for safekeeping, if they expire or if there are no
longer grounds for an official’s possession of a diplomatic or service
passport.
The Foreign Ministry’s press office would not
elaborate by phone and did not immediately reply to an e-mailed request for
comment.
Those deprived of passports include fugitives who
worked with Yanukovych.
They are: ex-Health Minister Raisa Boharyreva, ex-Education
Minister Dmytro Tabachnyk, former Deputy Prime Minister Serhiy Arbuzov, former
Revenue and Tax Minister Oleksandr Klymenko, former Youth and Sports Minister
Ravil Safiullin, and ex-presidential chief of staff Andriy Klyuyev.
Others are incumbent lawmakers from the Opposition
Bloc, an offshoot of Yanukovych’s Party of Regions. These include Yury Boiko,
Nestor Shufrich, Oleksandr Vilkul, Natalya Korolevska, Mikhailo Dobkin, Serhiy
Kivalov, and Yevhen Bakulin.
The list also includes people who are not currently
linked to the Party of Regions or its successors.
These are Oleksiy Honcharenko, a lawmaker from the
Petro Poroshenko Bloc; Stepan Barna, an ex-member of the bloc; ex-Kyiv Mayor
Leonid Chernovetsky; Oleksandr Buryak, a former lawmaker from the Batkyvshchyna
party, and Viktor Baloha, an independent lawmaker and former chief of staff
under ex-President Viktor Yushchenko.
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