Ukrainian PGO creates new office to probe Yanukovych case

To speed up and complete the pre-trial investigation and send to court 'the big criminal case' against [ex-president of Ukraine Viktor] Yanukovych and his entourage, the Organized Crime Office has been created within the PGO.Meanwhile, the Special Investigations Department after the reorganization will continue to be headed by Serhiy Horbatiuk.This department will be in charge of investigating and transferring to court the cases related to Maidan.The newly created office will be an independent structural subdivision of the PGO. It is still undecided to which department the Office will be accountable, most probably directly to the Prosecutor General's Office of Ukraine.