Leader of the Batkivschyna Party and Former Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko has said that the Prosecutor General's Office of Ukraine has resumed its pre-trial investigation into the case against her on charge of misuse of money received under the Kyoto Protocol.
"Today, the Prosecutor General’s Office has reopened the case, and resumed the pre-trial investigation concerning the money from the Kyoto Protocol," the Batkivschyna leader told journalists on Monday after leaving the Prosecutor General’s Office.
"So today I haven’t studied the case – they found me another job. Today, I have been giving testimony again," she said.
According to Tymoshenko, the investigator asked her more questions concerning only one topic – whether she spent the money of the Kyoto Protocol on pensions, and salaries in the public sector.
"I had only one answer to this: I ensured the payment of pensions and salaries, but the money of the Kyoto Protocol, environmental money, has been and still is on the special accounts of the Environmental Ministry, and it have not been spent," Tymoshenko said, adding that she has provided all evidence and proofs related to this issue. Tymoshenko, now the top opposition leader, charges President Viktor Yanukovych is trying to crush his political foes. Yanukovych says he is fighting corruption.
Last week’s decision by the Czech Republic to grant asylum to a former Tymoshenko minister appeared to underline growing Western unease with Yanukovych’s commitments to democracy.
