According to the information disseminated by mass media regarding notifying an advocate Serhiy Vlasenko on suspicion on him having committed bodily injury inflicted on his ex-wife, the Head of the Higher Qualification and Disciplinary Bar Commission Valentyn Zagariya referred to the Prosecutor General of Ukraine Viktor Pshonka with a request for the unbiased and non-prejudice consideration of the mentioned case.

In his reference Mr. Zagariya noted that according to the part 1 item 13 of the Article 23 of the Law of Ukraine “On the Bar and the Legal Profession” and item 1 of the part 1 of the Article 481 of the Criminal Procedure Code of Ukraine there is a special procedure of notifying an advocate on suspicion on him having committed the criminal offence. In particular, notification of suspicion an advocate in commitment criminal offence can be executed specifically by the Prosecutor General of Ukraine, the First Deputy thereof, prosecutors of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea, regions, the cities Kyiv and Sevastopol.

It should be noted that in spite of absence substantiated evidence regarding Serhiy Vlasenko in Unified Advocate’s Register of Ukraine on September 11, 2013, Mr. Vlasenko has advocate’s status according to the license on advocate’s activity №704 based on the Lvivska regional Qualification and Disciplinary Bar Commission’s decision №6 dated October 23, 1997.