Former Ukrainian Minister of Fuel and Energy Eduard Stavytsky says that reports about his detention in Israel and searches conducted at his apartment are false.
“These reports are fake. I have nothing to add,” he told TV Channel 112 in an answer to a respective question during a phone-in interview from Tel Aviv (Israel) on May 6.
“I think what has been happening with me and my family in the past few weeks is just pressure aimed, as I said earlier, at blackmailing me. Individuals who are now fighting for the post of the Prosecutor General are using my so-called “case” in their own interests,” he said.
In his words, he did not go to the airport on Friday, as he was planning to stay with his family for Shabbat, and “it did not make any sense to leave the country at that time”
When asked whether there were searches on Friday or earlier, he replied: “With regard to the case, which was opened against me, no proceedings are being conducted.”
