26 June 2014
Odesa City Councilman Serhiy Bovbalan attended the June 25 session of the City Council despite the police having declared a warrant for his arrest for his suspected criminal role in the May 2 riots locally. Representatives of the police and prosecutor’s office did not react to his presence, the Interfax-Ukrayina news agency reported.
Mykola Herasymiuk, a Kyiv prosecutor who is alleged to have persecuted the EuroMaidan protestors, was appointed the first deputy prosecutor general, reported the Prosecutor General’s web site on June 25. He led the State Executive Service that handled all the arrested and confiscated property.
Zenon Zawada: Euro-Maidan protest leaders are disappointed with the lack of any systemic approach by the administration of Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko in cleaning the government ranks of corrupt officials, particularly those who opposed to the Euro-Maidan and Ukraine’s Euro-integration. Neither is any systemic action being taken by Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk.
It remains unclear whether the conflict in Donbas is distracting Poroshenko and Yatsenyuk from leading such efforts, or if they don’t intend to undertake them at all. If they don’t, they stand to lose significant support in the parliamentary elections to other pro-EU forces that will call for more systemic and decisive lustration measures.