Thus, the draft notification of suspicion was not drawn up for him. On this Tuesday, May 16, at the request of the Prosecutor General Yuri Lutsenko, said the head of the Department of Special Investigations GPU Sergei Gorbatyuk.

As stated in the memo to the Attorney General, which was published on his page in the social network, Lutsenko's press secretary Larisa Sargan, the witnesses questioned during the pre-trial investigation witnesses about his direct involvement in the criminal scheme of buying platforms at inflated prices did not report. In this connection, there was no direct evidence of such participation and the draft notification of suspicion was not drawn up, - the note notes.

Recall that in 2011-2012, the opposition accused the former then Minister of Energy and Coal Industry Yuriy Boyko in the corruption acquisition of drilling platforms. The verification of the facts of the acquisition of the drilling rig by Chernomornyftogaz for $ 400 million in 2011 was conducted by the SBU.

As reported URA-Inform, the Prosecutor General's Office launched a criminal investigation into the fact of occupying officials of the Ministry of Energy in a preliminary agreement with representatives of the Naftogaz of Ukraine and GAO Chernomornaftogaz state funds for more than 200 million hryvnia.