Kiev, Sept 15, 2017 (AFP)
Ukraine's general prosecutor said Friday that a former justice minister and close aide to pro-Moscow ex-president Viktor Yanukovych has been detained over actions in 2010 that amounted to an alleged "coup d'etat".
A court in Kiev has placed Oleksandr Lavrynovych, 61, in provisional detention for 60 days, the prosecutor said in a statement.
Lavrynovych is accused of having fomented and participated in a "coup d'etat" due to his role in pushing for the adoption of a controversial constitutional reform that increased the powers of the president.
The reform was adopted in 2010 by the Constitutional Court, but not by parliament.
The pro-West opposition in Ukraine had considered the measure a "coup d'etat".
Unlike other top officials from the former pro-Russian regime, Lavrynovych remained in Ukraine after the pro-European movement succeeded in February 2014 in ousting Yanukovych who fled to Russia where he lives in exile.
Yanukovych is on trial in absentia in Kiev, accused of high treason and having violated the territorial integrity of Ukraine.
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