Poroshenko hopes public prosecutor's office to ask parliament to lift MPs' immunity - Mar. 14, 2015

Poroshenko hopes public prosecutor’s office to ask parliament to lift MPs’ immunity

Published March 14, 2015 at 2:43 pm

A handout picture taken and released on Feb. 18, 2015 by the Ukrainian presidential press service on Feb. 18 shows Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko speaking during the Security and Defence Council in Kyiv.

Photo by AFP PHOTO/ UKRAINE PRESIDENTIAL PRESS-SERVICE/ MYKHAYLO MARKIV

Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko has said that in the shortest terms Public Prosecutor's Office of Ukraine would finish investigations into actions of some Ukrainian lawmakers and ask the parliament to life their immunity.

“I know facts which are being investigated by Public Prosecutor’s Office today, and I’m waiting that soon Public Prosecutor’s Office will ask the parliament to lift some lawmakers’ immunity,” the Ukrainian president said in an interview with the 1+1 TV channel broadcasted late on March 13.