Ukrainian Deputy Prosecutor General and Prosecutor of Odesa Region Davit
Sakvarelidze says that the Prosecutor General's Office (PGO) has opened more
cases against his team than against ousted and sanctioned President Viktor
Yanukovych.
"With great regret and irony I've made a mental note of the fact that
more criminal proceedings have been opened against our personnel than against
Viktor Yanukovych – if one counts all open, closed and ongoing investigations,
their number is about seven over the four months," Sakvarelidze wrote on
Facebook on Thursday.
In his words, one of the first cases was opened right after tests of
candidates for local prosecutors started in August 2015 when the PGO's internal
security service began probing into the financing of the process with the use
of funds allocated by the European Union and other international donors.
"There was the impression that the service, which, by the way, reports
directly to the Prosecutor General, had already eliminated all the problems and
violations within the prosecution system, and its only concern at that moment
was how the reform was financed. I don't think they've asked themselves a
question how much effort needs to be made to convince international
institutions to join the process of the reform of the prosecutor's office and
how their activity jeopardizes all the progress already made and virtually
destroys not so high confidence in our system," he wrote.
According to Sakvarelidze, European Union experts who participated in the
preparation of the tests and helped to ensure their transparency were pointedly
interrogated within the framework of that internal investigation.
Nearly that that time, he said, the PGO brought an action against our
prosecutors from the General Inspectorate in order to "hinder the
so-called 'diamond prosecutors' case in every possible way and break it up in the end."
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