Member of parliament of the Our Ukraine-People's Self-Defense Party Hennadiy Moskal has appealed for a third time to Prosecutor General Viktor Pshonka concerning the criminal case on the poisoning of former presidential candidate Viktor Yushchenko.
"The circumstances force me again to appeal to the Prosecutor General’s Office to carry out another investigation into the criminal case on the poisoning of presidential candidate Viktor Yushchenko and obtaining blood samples for examination," Moskal’s press service quotes him as saying.
The MP noted that his previous appeals had only received formal responses.
"I’m surprised that in other criminal cases the Prosecutor General’s Office takes definite action, but in the case of Yushchenko’s poisoning it refers just to talk and the philosophical thoughts of the former president about whether or not to give blood samples," MP said.
He pointed to the article of the Criminal Procedural Code under which investigators, if necessary, have the right to order the taking of samples of signatures or other samples that are necessary for expert investigations.
"That’s why I’m begging you as prosecutor general to charge the corresponding services with obtaining samples of Yushchenko blood for expert study, and not to delay the case, as society may get the impression that Ukrainian citizens are not all equal before the law, and also that the Prosecutor General’s Office gives Yushchenko some preferences that are not stipulated in any law of Ukraine," Moskal said.
Earlier Pshonka more than once affirmed the intention to hold conduct blood tests on Yuschenko during investigation of this case.
In December 2010, Pshonka claimed that Yushchenko might not have been poisoned in 2004, adding that to find out the truth another blood test should be done.
In January-February 2011 Yushchenko was interrogated in the Prosecutor General’s Office concerning his poisoning case.
