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Interpol may consider the issue of putting Ukrainian MP Oleksandr Onyshchenko on wanted list in late January, head of the National Central Interpol Bureau of Ukraine Vasyl Nevolia told the newspaper Komsomolskaya Pravda in Ukraine, Radio Liberty reported.
According to Nevolia, Interpol is likely to declare Onyshchenko wanted on January 26-29.
"Onyshchenko and his defense appealed that putting Onyshchenko on the wanted list does not meet the organization's charter for several reasons. So now the matter is under consideration by the file control commission for the control of files... The next meeting of the commission is scheduled for January 26-29," Nevolia said.
As UNIAN reported earlier, on July 5, the Verkhovna Rada agreed to allow criminal prosecution, detention, and arrest of Oleksandr Onyshchenko. Ahead of this move, having taken advantage of his parliamentary immunity, he fled Ukraine.
Read alsoNABU reports sharp profit growth at Ukrgazvydobuvannia since elimination of Onyschchenko’s illegal "gas schemes"The Ukrainska Pravda online newspaper published a statement by Onyshchenko claiming he had allegedly handed some "incriminating evidence" regarding Poroshenko to the U.S. intelligence agencies. The statement followed the announcement by the Ukrainian Security Service that Onyshchenko was plotting a "massive information attack on Ukraine within the framework of a strategy agreed with the Kremlin".
On December 8, NABU Director Artem Sytnik said that the agency had registered criminal proceedings at the request of People's Deputy Oleksandr Onyshchenko into the facts of bribery of deputies.
On December 17, Chief Anti-Corruption Prosecutor Nazar Kholodnytskiy said that the NABU would close the proceedings if Onyshchenko failed to provide relevant evidence within 10 days.