Former Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko never asked the administration of the Kachanivska Penal Colony to inform her about the time and the way in which she would be transported to Kyiv for the participation in a court hearing of the criminal case on the murder of Ukrainian parliamentarian Yevhen Scherban, the State Penitentiary Service of Ukraine has said.
According to the prison service, on Feb. 12 the summon to court was several times read aloud to Tymoshenko, but she never expressed a wish to go to court, on the contrary she talked to female employees of the colony in an impolite way and categorically refused to go to Kyiv to attend an interrogation of a witness on the case.
The prison service stressed that the court has summoned Tymoshenko to the hearing two times and the prison’s administration proposed to transport her according to procedure.
According to the penitentiary service, Tymoshenko’s regular attempts to slander the State Penitentiary Service and deceive the public as regards her real intentions and actions could be seen in her statements and actions.
“It seems that the convict deliberately says one thing to her lawyers and the opposite to the prison service employees in order to keep making groundless claims,” the prison service said.
The penitentiary service also said that the ex-premier’s associates and defense lawyers had vowed to prevent her transportation from Central Clinical Hospital No. 5.
The penitentiary service also stated that it observes the current legislation and is not going to break it because of Tymoshenko’s provocations.
As reported, on Feb. 13 Kyiv’s Pechersky District Court started to hold investigatory proceedings on a criminal case on the murder of Ukrainian parliamentarian Yevhen Scherban in the absence of Tymoshenko, who is a suspect in the case.
