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Where there is no law, but every man does what is right in his own eyes, there is the least of real liberty
Henry M. Robert

Will Lazarenko Tell All?

16 February, 1999 - 00:00

By Vyacheslav YAKUBENKO, The Day
People's Deputy Pavlo Lazarenko called on his colleagues February 9 never
to agree to hearing his case in camera, "in order to explain to the whole
people not only about Lazarenko but also about the whole entourage."

It was the Prosecutor General's Office that suggested an in camera
hearing. Mr. Lazarenko seems bent on fulfilling the promise he gave after
returning from Swiss custody, to strike a staggering blow against those
in power. Mr. Lazarenko claims the PGO has submitted entirely different
charges against him to Verkhovna Rada and the Swiss law-enforcement bodies:
for "acquisition of six buildings and river clean-up" to the Karmazin committee
and for "illegal manufacture of and trafficking in firearms and drugs between
Ukraine and Russia" to the Swiss.

Incidentally, Mr. Lazarenko's fellow party member Serhiy Pravdenko has
already prepared "an answer to Chamberlain": the deputies were offered
a draft resolution on setting up a fact-finding commission "to study the
size of the real estate holdings belonging to state and government leaders,
ministers, other high officials, and their family members." The commission
would be charged with reporting its findings exactly one month before the
presidential elections. The Communists, of course, support the idea. Volodymyr
Moiseyenko suggested stock-taking of all buildings more than 200 square
meters in area erected after 1992.

But the point is that non-card-carrying communists also live there.

 

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