Ukraine's ex-Interior Minister Yuriy Lutsenko was not transported on September 8 from Kyiv's detention facility for a medical examination at a hospital, according to the press service of the State Penitentiary Service of Ukraine.
"The reports in some media and online publications, according to which Lutsenko left Kyiv’s detention facility on September 8 for an examination at Kyiv City Hospital, are untrue," reads the statement.
The service said that according to a recommendation of the medical commission from the Health Ministry of Ukraine, tests were conducted on Lutsenko for laboratory examination on September 7, 2011 at the detention facility.
"The other recommendations of the Health Ministry of Ukraine will be carried out in the near future, upon agreement with Kyiv’s Pechersky District Court," the penitentiary service said.
The service stated that Lutsenko’s state of health on the evening of September 9 "was satisfactory."
Earlier on Friday, Lutsenko’s wife and defense lawyer Iryna Lutsenko stated that the health condition of her husband had worsened.
"Yesterday [September 8], on Thursday, Yuriy Lutsenko was delivered for additional examination to Kyiv city hospital by an ambulance. According to Iryna Lutsenko, no official results of the examination of her husband were ready, but she was told that the previously established diagnosis of cryptogenic cirrhosis had been confirmed," reads a posting on the Web site of the People’s Self-Defense party.
