MPs dismissed Shokin, but the Prosecutor General managed to fire Sakvarelidze.

bigOn March 29, 2016, the People's Deputies, by 289 votes, upheld the request of Prosecutor General Viktor Shokin and voted for his resignation. At the parliamentary meeting, the president's representative to the Verkhovna Rada, Stepan Kubiv, announced that Shokin had requested that the resignation be considered without him.

However, on the very same day, before the vote to dismiss the Prosecutor General, it became known that Viktor Shokin had dismissed the young Georgian reformer David Sakvarelidze from his post. The corresponding order was published on the official website of the Prosecutor General's Office. The official reason for the dismissal was that the Prosecutor General's Office had repeatedly received inquiries from members of parliament regarding inconsistencies with the law "On the Prosecutor's Office" and that the position of Deputy Prosecutor General and Prosecutor of the Odesa Region, which Sakvarelidze occupies, does not exist in the security agency's staffing table.

As a reminder, David Sakvarelidze previously accused Viktor Shokin of lobbying for the interests of certain politicians and that the Prosecutor General himself is hindering the investigation into the "Diamond Prosecutors" case by dismissing the investigators who were handling the high-profile case.

It later became known that one of the "Diamond Prosecutors," Korniets, wants to go to court to have Sakvarelidze fired.

As experts noted, it was the "Diamond Prosecutors" case, which Sakvarelidze insisted on investigating, that sparked a conflict between the old and young teams in the Prosecutor General's Office.

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