KIEV, Sept. 10 - Arsen Avakov, the head of the Batkivschyna United Opposition election campaign and the ex-head of Kharkiv Regional State Administration, who is currently in Italy, said that he plans to file a number of lawsuits at European courts against the actions of Kharkiv officials involved in the liquidation of Basis Bank.

In an interview with the Delo newspaper published on Friday, while commenting on a statement by Kharkiv Regional Council that it will send to the Italian side documents confirming the involvement of Basis bankers in economic crimes, he said: "I will help them. I will file a number of lawsuits against their actions. I will sue officials for violations of the law in the destruction of Basis Bank... There will be European, rather than puppet Ukrainian judges."