Main Military Prosecutor's Office has completed the special pre-trial investigation into activities of former defense minister of Ukraine Mykhailo Yezhel, who is suspected of abuse of power and office.

Yezhel is suspected of having committed an offense under Part 2 of Article 364 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine (abuse of power or office), the public and media relations department of the Prosecutor General's Office of Ukraine reported on Tuesday.

At the moment the defense team has been notified about the completion of the pre-trial investigation in accordance with the requirements of Article 290 of the Criminal Procedural Code of Ukraine, and can see the materials of the criminal proceedings, the report says.

The military prosecutor's office said that Yezhel, who has been put on the state wanted list, can come at any time to the investigator for high-profile cases of the Main Military Prosecutor's Office of the Prosecutor General's Office and examine the materials of the criminal proceedings.

As reported, Yezhel is suspected of misusing public office and assisting a third party from 2011 to 2012. He issued four separate tasks paid for by budget resources not paid to the organizations which carried them out (commercial entities were contracted to provide food services to Ukrainian Armed Forces personnel). These actions cost the state about UAH 43 million and had serious consequences.

According to law-enforcement agencies, Yezhel has been put on the Ukrainian government's wanted list and steps have been taken to put him on the international wanted list. Kyiv's Pechersky District Court authorized a special pre-trial investigation of a criminal case involving Yezhel. The court has authorized his arrest and transfer to a court for determining pre-trial detention pending trial, as well as a pre-trial inquiry in absentia into his actions.