Looking back, "Today" remembered the loudest successes and failures of the fifteenth in the bill of the Prosecutor General of Ukraine. FISHING WITHOUT EXPERIENCE. "Well, let it be without experience and education! The main thing is that a person should be good," Ukrainians joked in the network after Lutsenko's appointment. He, we will remind, has no legal education (Lutsenko - the engineer of electrical engineering), which was previously an indispensable condition for working in the GPU. In general, the appointment was one of the most resonant events of last spring: just a few hours after the adoption of the law, "sharpened" specially for Lutsenko (allowed to head the GPU without a profile education), the document was signed by the president and published in the special issue of the "Voice of Ukraine". And in the evening of the same day, the parliament supported the appointment of a new head of the GPU. During the first communication with the press, Lutsenko admitted that he did not intend to hold this post for more than two years: "Neither in my soul, nor in life I am not a prosecutor, and I would like to stay, because I have other views on life". A month later, he publicly stated about his main priorities in the person of the Prosecutor General: "The first is the condemnation of Yanukovych, the second is bringing to the end of the Maidan cases and returning to the budget the means of the" Family ". In addition, he promised Lutsenko to start a "big fishing for a big fish" and restore the people's confidence in the prosecutor's office, having christened their department as a "general burial ground". MEDIA PROSECUTOR. Experts note that Lutsenko is the most politically and mediatively active prosecutor general for all the years of Ukraine's independence. "At the same time, he is not so much a prosecutor-lawyer as a prosecutor-politician. This is the unique specificity of Yuriy Lutsenko at his post, "says political expert Vadim Karasev. According to him, one of Lutsenko's main achievements as an accuser is the confiscation of the $ 1.5 billion runaway President Viktor Yanukovych and his entourage. Recall that these funds have already been transferred to the State Treasury Service and the Ministry of Finance. "I would note the general trend towards a significant increase in the work of the prosecutor's office in resonant cases with political overtones. And this is largely due to Lutsenko - before him we saw a very sluggish, slow and ineffective work in this direction, "notes political scientist Vladimir Fesenko. But the process of "purification" of the prosecutor's office, according to experts, has so far remained controversial. For example, Lutsenko's undeniable success, in their view, was the launch of a database of prosecutors'. Annually GPU staff, local and regional prosecutors should submit special questionnaires with incomes and expenditures, the data of which may give grounds for an internal audit. True, over the past year, out of 12,500 prosecutors,. three. "There were expectations that Lutsenko would restore the authority of the prosecutor's office and the credibility of it. But this has not happened yet. Perhaps, due to the fact that the leaders of NAABU and other anti-corruption bodies broke out, "Karasev said..
In turn, the head of the Center for Combating Corruption Vitaly Shabunin recalls the ambiguous personnel decisions of Lutsenko. "Prosecutor General appointed Attorney General of ATU Konstantin Kulik Deputy Chief of the Department of International Legal Cooperation of the GPU. At the same time, in October, SAP sent a case to Kulik, who is suspected of illegal enrichment, to court, "Shabunin said..
Original article: The results of Lutsenko's work: Prosecutor General praised for Yanukovych's money, but scolded for controversial cadres.