Ukraine PM: move against alleged corruption in govt 'politically motivated'
KYIV. April 6 (Interfax) - A proposal to set up a parliamentary commission to investigate alleged corruption in Ukraine's government is a "politically motivated" initiative, Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk said in a television program on Sunday evening.
"Any accusations, if they have a sound basis under them, must be proved in court. Politically motivated accusations, which is what is being proposed in parliament, - several deputies got together with the Opposition Bloc, - won't get anywhere within parliament," Yatsenyuk told the 1+1 channel.
"Nobody will allow the coalition to be destabilized in the political and economic situation in the country, which is the task our political opponents."
Earlier, a former head of the State Financial Inspectorate, Mykola Hordiyenko, and parliamentary deputy Serhiy Leshchenko of Petro Poroshenko Bloc had released statements accusing the government of corruption.
Hordiyenko said 7.5 billion hryvni had been embezzled, while Leshchenko said Switzerland had launched bribery proceedings against parliamentary deputy Mykola Martynenko, head of the legislature's Committee on the Fuel and Energy Complex.
Deputy Vadym Rabinovych of Opposition Bloc and independent lawmaker Boryslav Bereza drafted a parliament resolution to set up a commission to investigate the allegations. Parliament then announced via its website that it had put the draft document on its agenda.
