Ukrainian Prosecutor General: Courts have received 900 corruption cases in six months
In the first half of 2016, law enforcement officials have sent almost 900 corruption cases to the courts to begin criminal proceedings, as stated by the Prosecutor General, Yuriy Lutsenko, during his speech in honor of Ukrainian Independence Day, the press service of the General Prosecutor of Ukraine reported. "The verdicts have already been made on 276 of these corruption cases," Lutsenko said.
According to the Prosecutor General, losses amounting to more than 780 million UAH were established in the proceedings of these crimes. Property worth more than 800 million UAH and assets worth 13 million UAH were seized from the suspects and claims for another 145 million UAH have been filed.
"This is only part of the work that we have to complete. According to information provided by the special unit assigned to investigate Yanukavych’s organized crime groups and the activities of Kurchenko and Klymenko during their management of the Military Prosecutor's Office, the assessment of the damages reaches 198 billion hryvnia to date," Lutsenko said.
Earlier it was reported that the General Prosecutor of Ukraine handed over 136 indictments to the court on the case related to the of dispersal of the Maidan protests, a wave of demonstrations and civil unrest in Ukraine, which began on the night of 21 November 2013 with public protests in Maidan Nezalezhnosti in Kiev, demanding closer European integration.