Subordinates of Prosecutor General Vitaliy Yarema, who were slated for dismissal, have filed a mass challenge to their dismissals in court under the "Law on the Purification of Power." According to Glavkom, at least ten high-ranking officials in the prosecutor's office have filed lawsuits.
Among them: the prosecutor of the Sumy region Vladimir Petrov, the Lviv region Nikolai Goshovsky, the Donetsk region Nikolai Frantovsky, one of the deputy prosecutors of the Kharkiv region, the head of the personnel department of the Kharkiv prosecutor's office, the 1st deputy prosecutor of the Ternopil region Vasyl Sharavara.
There were also dissenting voices in the central office of the Prosecutor General's Office: the deputy head of the department for the investigation of particularly important cases, the deputy head of the personnel department, the head of the department for the protection of citizens' rights and freedoms of the Main Directorate for Compliance with Laws by Special Forces and Agencies for Combating Corruption and Crime, and the deputy head of the department for the participation of prosecutors in civil proceedings are contesting their dismissals.
The publication claims that all these officers were blacklisted due to the government cleansing law passed in mid-October. According to it, individuals who held leadership positions during Viktor Yanukovych's presidency and held them for a year must be dismissed. Furthermore, they will be barred from holding public office for the next 10 years.
Earlier, the Prosecutor's Truth newspaper published a list of prosecutors dismissed as part of the implementation of the "Law on the Purification of Power." Donetsk Oblast Prosecutor Frantovsky was the first in a string of prosecutors to challenge these decisions, but the court dismissed his claim against Prosecutor General Yarema.
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