On Thursday, April 21, 2016, Prosecutor General of Ukraine Vladislav Kutsenko announced at a briefing that his department had launched a criminal investigation into the activities of a criminal group attempting to seize control of the city of Zaporizhzhia.
As previously reported by the media, the persons in question are the former head of Rinat Akhmetov's Zaporizhstal plant and the current mayor of Zaporizhzhia, Volodymyr Buryak.
Kutsenko reported that the Prosecutor General's Office received a complaint from a group of MPs alleging that a criminal group had been created in the city of Zaporizhzhia, which was taking action to seize control of local government, law enforcement, and the city's budget.
Kutsenko did not name the so-called new "overseer," but said that "everyone knows that the plant in Zaporizhzhia places certain individuals in power."
It was previously reported that the Prosecutor General's Office (GPU) had filed charges against Zaporizhzhia Mayor Buryak, accusing him of conspiring with the Zaporizhstal plant to embezzle 150 million hryvnias.
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