Criminal charges against Yuriy Lutsenko, the former Minister of Internal Affairs of Ukraine include exceeding the powers which caused grave consequences (paragraph 3 of Article 365 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine); abuse of the powers (paragraph 3 of Article 364 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine) and taking of the state assets in particularly large size by means of abuse of the powers (paragraph 5 of Article 191 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine). Yuriy Lutsenko was arrested in December 2010 and the court hearing in the case began in May 2011 and is still ongoing. Yuriy Lutsenko continues to stay under the arrest in pretrial detention center in Kyiv.