KYIV, May 13 – The Prosecutor General's Office launched a pretrial investigation into the possible interference of state officials in the work of judges during a meeting of the National Security and Defense Council on PrivatBank case on April 18.

"Following the consideration of the motion of judges of the Kyiv District Administrative Court, the General Prosecutor's Office of Ukraine submitted information to Unified Register of Pretrial Investigations and began a pretrial investigation into possible interference with the work of judges by senior state officials during the NSDC meeting on April 18, 2019. In particular, this is about a criminal crime, under Part 2 of Article 376 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine," the press service of the District Administrative Court of Kyiv said on Monday.