Evidence has emerged that Oleksandr Hranovsky, an influential lawmaker from the Bloc of President Petro Poroshenko, may have intervened in the work of judges and prosecutors, according to a Radio Liberty investigation released on May 19.Sergii Leshchenko, another lawmaker from the Poroshenko Bloc, has repeatedly accused Hranovsky of informally supervising the prosecutorial and judicial system on behalf of Poroshenko and his right-hand man, Ihor Kononenko.

Hranovsky, who is widely seen as a Kononenko protégé, is in charge of the anti-corruption department at the Prosecutor General’s Office, which has been accused of routinely fabricating political cases, according to Leshchenko.