OREANDA-NEWS. The National Bureau of Investigation of Ukraine sent to the Prosecutor General’s Office a draft report on suspicion of former President Petro Poroshenko of committing crimes under part 3 of article 109 (actions aimed at forcible changing or overthrowing the constitutional order or seizing state power) and part 2 of article 364 (abuse of power or office) of the Criminal Code of Ukraine.

“The draft suspicion was prepared and sent to the Prosecutor’s Office as part of a pre-trial investigation of the criminal proceedings regarding the possible unlawful influence on the competition for the selection of candidates for the appointment of members of the Supreme Council of Justice in March – May 2019,” the report says.

The representatives of the agency explained that they had disclosed information about the document sent to the Prosecutor’s Office because of “scrupulous public attention to the state of the pre-trial investigation of the proceedings” connected with ex-president.

Nowadays Poroshenko is a deputy of the Verkhovna Rada; therefore, at the same time, the National Bureau of Investigation offered the Prosecutor General to request the parliament for consent to make the politician criminally liable.

The maximum penalty for committing crimes under part 3 of article 109 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine, is five years in prison, under part 2 of article 364 six years in prison.

At the end of October, it was reported that the National Bureau of Investigation was conducting an investigation on the crimes under article 109 and 364 of the Criminal Code in connection with the appointment of Volodymyr Groysman a head of the government of Ukraine in 2016. Until now Poroshenko is not a suspect, but a witness in these proceedings.