Acting Prosecutor General Yuriy Sevruk on April 15,
2016, dismissed Odesa Region Prosecutor Mykola Stoyanov, according to the press
service of the Prosecutor General's Office (PGO) of Ukraine.
The dismissal was in line with
the provisions of the Law of Ukraine on Prosecution and the Law of Ukraine on
Lustration following the examination of Stoyanov's personal records," the
press service reported quoting PGO prosecutor Vladyslav Kutsenko as saying.
As UNIAN reported earlier,
Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko demanded that Sevruk should immediately
dismiss #Stoyanov as part of the lustration campaign.
Stoyanov, who once headed the
prosecution agency in Odesa region, was returned to this position late in March
2016 by outgoing Prosecutor General Viktor Shokin after he had dismissed
reformist Deputy Prosecutor General and simultaneously Odesa Region Prosecutor
David Sakvarelidze. Shokin claimed that Sakvarelidze "had grossly violated
prosecutorial ethics."
Stoyanov first
became chief prosecutor in Odesa region in May 2014, when the then PGO head
Oleh Makhnytsky appointed him to that position. He was sacked with the arrival
of the next Prosecutor General Vitaliy Yarema.
The PGO explained that
Stoyanov had
been reinstated by Shokin in keeping
with a court ruling. But the decision was not approved by the public who staged
a protest rally in the center of Odesa late on March 30, 2016, demanding
Stoyanov should be fired.
The Justice Ministry said then
that Stoyanov was subject to dismissal under the lustration law.
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