Publicly burning the covert – Lutsenko has to go (but he won’t)

President Poroshenko went to great lengths to install Yuri Lutsenko as Prosecutor General of Ukraine.  It was only after about a year of behind the curtain negotiations, and then forcing through a change in the law, that the President managed to install his man as Prosecutor General.

The political capital (and probably money) spent in shoehorning Yuri Lutsenko in as Prosecutor General was of course all about loyalty to President Poroshenko.  Otherwise inserting a “Grey Cardinal” (an accomplished doer of grubby and dirty deals behind the curtain where the stands of politics, criminality and business entwine) would not have been possible.  After decades of being a “Grey Cardinal”, Mr Lutsenko knows where all the bodies are buried and how all the scams and schemes operate.