940 Ukrainian officials out of 5,000 lustrated in 18 months – Justice Ministry
940 Ukrainian civil servants out of 5,000 have fallen within the law on lustration for 18 months.
Tetiana Kozachenko, the head of lustration department at the Ukrainian Justice Ministry, said this on the air of Hromadske.TV.
According to her, the law on lustration is temporary suspension from office “of a very narrow circle of people.”
“No more than 5,000 people out of over 300,000 civil servants fall within lustration in Ukraine,” she said.
“Lustration is not something that people pretend. This is not a common justice and not detention of all,” Kozachenko noted.
The lustration law was passed in September 2014. Its purpose was to suspend from office the officials who helped Viktor Yanukovych to usurp power, were involved in harassment of activists during Maidan protests, and also cooperated with foreign intelligence services to undermine the country’s territorial integrity. The law also removes from office the civil servants, who earlier held posts in the Communist Party and the KGB.
