The Government urges there should be conducted objective, open and effectual investigation regarding the Chairman of the State Fiscal Service Roman Nasirov. This was announced by Prime Minister of Ukraine Volodymyr Groysman at a Government session on Friday.

"We, as a Government, will back up the entirely unprejudiced, open and effective investigation. If a person is guilty, then he has to be punished, if he is not guilty, then he has to be acquitted. Here only a question of time and efficiency of investigative actions, underlined Volodymyr Groysman.

The Head of the Government noted that detectives of the National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine (NABU) carried out certain investigative actions into the Chairman of the State Fiscal Service of Ukraine Roman Nasirov yesterday.

Therefore, the Ministry of Finance of Ukraine had submitted a proposal for the suspension of duties of the Chairman of the State Fiscal Service pending investigation "with the aim to provide a totally objective and unbiased investigation of the facts that may be revealed during the investigation," emphasized the Prime Minister.

"Systemic work of the State Fiscal Service should not suffer from this, there must be prompt decisions. It is a clear fact that the State Fiscal Service is to continue working. Following the end of the official investigation into the activities of the Chairman of the State Fiscal Service of Ukraine there would be results and outcomes, summed up Volodymyr Groysman.