Alexander Zakoretsky
Former Poltava Oblast Prosecutor Oleksandr Zakoretsky continues to serve as Deputy Head of the Presidential Administration's Main Department for Law Enforcement and Anti-Corruption and is not subject to the lustration law. He told Poltavshchyna in a telephone conversation, according to ORD.
"The fact is that I was appointed to this position before the 'Law on the Purification of Government' came into effect and am not subject to it. I underwent the appropriate background checks before my appointment; after all, there are smart people working there. Secondly, according to the Regulation 'On the Administration of the President of Ukraine,' it is a patronage body; it is not a government agency, and therefore not subject to the aforementioned law. Thirdly, according to the law, the head of the Administration and his deputies are subject to it; they are not even department heads; I am only a deputy department head. That's why many rushed to make statements about my lustration, but you didn't see me on the lustration list?" Zakoretsky noted.
Moreover, Oleksandr Zakoretsky has reservations about the law and considers it downright harmful in some respects. "The Constitutional Court of Ukraine has accepted the Foreign Intelligence Service's appeal regarding this law. The Venice Commission will also issue its advisory verdict. The fact is that the law applies to people who fought on the Maidan. As a lawyer, I can say that, according to Article 51 of the Criminal Code, punishments such as deprivation of the right to hold office or engage in certain activities can only be imposed by a court, for a period of two to five years, with an additional term of one to three. But here—without a court decision—it's 10 years. And this affects many professionals, officers. Who will lead us? This is already reminiscent of the practice of the 1930s, when the entire top brass was razed. This only plays into the hands of our enemies," he concluded.
As a reminder, Prokurorskaya Pravda previously reported that on October 22, Oleksandr Zakoretsky, a former Poltava region prosecutor who previously worked in the Prosecutor General's Office, took over as deputy head of the Main Department for Law Enforcement and Anti-Corruption at the Presidential Administration. Subsequently, Presidential Press Secretary Svyatoslav Tsegolko announced that Zakoretsky was subject to lustration and was dismissed from the Presidential Administration.
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