The security for convicts, if they are taken from a penal colony, can be ensured by employees of the State Penitentiary Service of Ukraine and Interior Ministry troops, but the question of the security for former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko during her treatment outside the Kachanivska penal colony has not been resolved yet, a service representative has told Interfax-Ukraine.
While commenting in an interview with Interfax-Ukraine on the Ukrainian prosecutor general’s granting permission for Tymoshenko to undergo treatment outside the prison, an assistant to the head of the State Penitentiary Service, Ihor Andrushko, said that this question would be resolved soon.
"There is a practice that defendants and convicted persons are accompanied by escort troops and employees of the penitentiary service. Therefore, I currently cannot say how security will be ensured if there is a positive decision," he said.
Andrushko said that a respective decision would be taken by the State Penitentiary Service.
"But the point is that it [a report on the prosecutor general’s permission] has just appeared, and I have not seen official documents, and our department is currently meeting. So I think that a decision will be taken in the near future, but so far I know nothing about the decision of the management," he said.
As reported, on April 2, Prosecutor General Viktor Pshonka gave permission for Tymoshenko to obtain medical treatment outside the penal colony in Kharkiv where she is serving her sentence.
