Former Ukrainian President Leonid Kuchma may soon be arrested. A number of people's deputies of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine insist on this. \nToday, two deputies' inquiries were received at once by the Prosecutor General's Office of Ukraine regarding the possibility of initiating a criminal case against L. Kuchma and placing him under guard. \nSupporters of the new head of state are demanding that prosecutors begin investigating crimes that, according to them, were committed by Viktor Yushchenko's predecessor. This is stated in a document read today by Verkhovna Rada Chairman Volodymyr Lytvyn at a session of the Council. \nThe former Ukrainian leader, in particular, is suspected of organizing the abduction of opposition journalist Heorhiy Gongadze in 2000. A few days ago, Ukraine's Prosecutor General Sviatoslav Piskun had already reported a possible summons of L. Kuchma for questioning in this case to his department. It is not excluded that the questioning could end in arrest. \nHowever, this is far from the only accusation against the ex-president. Deputies also suspect him of illegal wiretapping of conversations, receiving bribes, abuse of power, assisting certain state officials in misappropriating funds on an especially large scale and laundering them. \nAmong other things, L. Kuchma also faces questions regarding the privatization of the country's largest enterprise – OJSC "Kryvorizhstal," which went to the son-in-law of the former head of state, Viktor Pinchuk, and oligarch Rinat Akhmetov, who supported Viktor Yanukovych in the elections. Yesterday it was announced that the Prosecutor General's Office has already begun checking the legality of the privatization of this enterprise, as well as other dubious sales of state property carried out during Leonid Kuchma's rule. \nFor now, the ex-president lives in fairly comfortable conditions – he has been provided with a dacha with service staff, a cook, four drivers and security, as well as two cars. In addition, according to information from the Ukrainian press, L. Kuchma also has other property, for example a yacht worth 3 million pounds sterling. \n