The Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine has sent both submitted draft laws on lifting parliamentary immunity, debated today, to the Constitutional Court of Ukraine, to see the Court's conclusion.
The Verkhovna Rada, Ukraine's parliament, has voted for stripping Opposition Bloc faction's Member of Parliament Mykhailo Dobkin of parliamentary immunity, his detention and arrest.
The Verkhovna Rada, Ukraine's parliament, has stripped Member of Parliament from the Volya Narodu group Oles Dovhy of parliamentary immunity, according to an UNIAN correspondent.
Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko is confident that the people's deputies must abolish the parliamentary immunity. A respective draft law is ready for consideration and only requires support and determination of the deputies themselves, as stated by the president.
A highly influential Russian oligarch has offered to testify to the U.S. Congress about his relationship with ex-Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort in exchange for immunity, according to New York Daily News.
The Prosecutor General’s Office of Ukraine has will submit to the Ukrainian Parliament a motion calling for the lifting of parliamentary immunity off of three people’s deputies following the audit of their electronic declarations of assets, according to Ukraine’s Prosecutor General Yuriy Lutsenko.
The Senate Intelligence Committee has turned down former national security adviser Michael Flynn’s request for immunity in exchange for his testimony in the panel’s investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election — at least for now, according to The Hill.
Michael T. Flynn, the former national security adviser, has offered to be interviewed by House and Senate investigators who are examining the Trump campaign’s ties to Russia in exchange for immunity from prosecution, according to his lawyer and a congressional official, according to The New York Times.