The application has already been submitted to the Presidential Executive Office.
The General Prosecutor of Ukraine Victor Shokin has filed the application for dismissal, the spokesperson of the President of Ukraine Sviatoslav Tsegolko informed in his Facebook, RBC-Ukraine reports.
“The General Prosecutor Victor Shokin has filed the application for dismissal. It has been submitted to the Presidential Executive Office today. I saw it myself”, Tsegolko noted.
It should be reminded that on February 16 the President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko urged the General Prosecutor Victor Shokin and Prime-Minister Arsenii Yatseniuk to resign.
Later the people’s deputy from “Block of Petro Poroshenko” Mustafa Naiem reported that Shokin has filed resignation.
The people’s deputy Nikolai Tomenko, in his turn, stated that Shokin’s application for resignation has not been submitted to the Verkhovna Rada yet.