Judge Oksana Tsarevych has found former Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko guilty of contempt of court, which is an administrative offence, and obliged her to pay a penalty of 1,000 nontaxable minimum incomes.
According to an Interfax-Ukraine reporter, the judge announced this ruling after leaving the consultation room.
“The court finds Tymoshenko guilty of the administrative offence and obliges her to pay a fine of 1,000 nontaxable minimum incomes,” the judge said.
More than a dozen opposition people’s deputies were present at the courtroom.
As reported, Kyiv’s Pechersky District Court started to hold investigatory proceedings on the criminal case on the murder of Ukrainian parliamentarian Yevhen Scherban in the absence of Tymoshenko, who is a suspect in the case.
At the beginning of the sitting, the judge read aloud the ex-premier’s letter to the court, in which the judge saw the signs of contempt of court.
The sum of the fine is calculated according to a nontaxable minimum income of Hr 17. Thus, Tymoshenko will have to pay Hr 17,000, or around $2,000.
The official exchange rate of the hryvnia to the U.S. dollar on February 13 is Hr 7.9930 per $1.
