Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine did not overcome the veto of the President of the Law "On Amending the Law of Ukraine" On prevention and counteraction to legalization (laundering) of proceeds of crime.

According to an UNIAN correspondent, to overcome the veto vote 162 of 435 deputies registered in the hall. (To overcome the veto is necessary 300 votes).

the parliament did not support the President"s proposal to reject the law. "For" votes with only 5 (if necessary 226) of the 435 deputies registered in the hall.

Parliament decided to send the bill back for revision to the relevant committee and to consider it at the next plenary week. The proposal supported by 275 deputies out of 435 registered in the hall.

Before that, the chairman of the Verkhovna Rada Speaker Volodymyr Lytvyn vote on a proposal to send the bill to the Venice Commission and the Financial Action Task Force to get their opinion, particularly about what is not included in this document whether the rules violate human rights.

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people"s deputy Anatoly Gritsenko (OU-PSD faction) said that such a proposal "sounds attractive, but it seems that we do not want to just work." According to him, "our 46 million, and only at the Pechersk hills tens of thousands of officials, so we ourselves are not in a position without the Venice Commission and the Financial Action Task Force to determine whether the bill is the protection of human rights or not." He said that was opposed to "someone for our Parliament should determine whether the law of our Constitution, our fundamentals and principles".