Kyiv prosecutor sacked under lustration law
KYIV. March 24 (Interfax) - A Kyiv prosecutor, Serhiy Yuldashev, has been sacked under a Ukrainian law which aims to purge government officials, his spokeswoman Aliona Yakhno said.
The second stage of lustration among Kyiv prosecutors began on March 11, she wrote on her Facebook page on Tuesday. "Today it was the turn of Kyiv prosecutor Serhiy Yuldashev. He has just bidden farewell to the staff," she wrote.
According to his spokeswoman, Yuldashev said: "Today the Prosecutor General signed a package of documents dismissing the prosecutors who fall under the lustration law. The law is the law. He complied with it. I, too, complied with this law in my time. I thank all of you for your work. It was a great honor for me to work with you. I hope you will continue working under a new prosecutor in the same cohesive and organized fashion."
Earlier Ukrainian parliamentarian Yegor Sobolev (Samopomich) said that Yuldashev's dismissal was demanded by the Public Lustration Committee and many activists. "They did not forget how Yuldashev worked as one of senior prosecutors in the Luhansk region during the times of Yanukovych," he wrote on his Facebook page on Tuesday.
