Lazarenko wishes to return to Ukraine

KYIV, September 18 /UKRINFORM/. Ex-Premier Pavlo Lazarenko wishes to return to Ukraine and to renew his political activities.

Deputy Chairman of the political party All-Ukrainian Association Hromada Oleh Oleniuk told a press conference about this.

“He has a great wish to return to Ukraine. Not in order to prove his non-involvement in crimes, but to return to its political life. Certainly, in a status of a political leader, and certainly, claiming if not for participation in power, then for presentation of at least small faction in the Parliament,” Oleniuk stressed.

In turn, ex-Deputy Prosecutor General, Vice President of the LLC Center for Strategic Research and Analysis Mykola Obikhod has said that Pavlo Lazarenko will be arrested in case of his return to Ukraine.

In case of a voluntary return to Ukraine, relevant services will be waiting for him at the Boryspil Airport,” he said.

To remind, Lazarenko, convicted in 2004 by the U.S. court for money-laundering, continues serving his term at the Los Angeles federal prison. He will go at large on November 1 this year.