Ukraine's former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko was given an order of detainment in the Prosecutor's Office on Tuesday and was released seven hours later after investigative actions had been completed, Tymoshenko's lawyer Serhiy Vlasenko told reporters.
General Prosecutor’s Office has on May 24 temporarily detained Yulia Tymoshenko, the former Prime Minister and opposition leader, alleging that such a measure in the controversial investigations viewed by many as political persecution was necessary to complete an ongoing investigation into her.
Earlier Vlasenko said, that former Prime Minister Tymoshenko, will probably be taken to court, where an arrest warrant will be issued for her after being questioned in the Prosecutor’s Office on Tuesday.
Tymoshenko has been called in for questioning dozens of times in recent months in connection with investigations of alleged wrongdoing that occurred while she was prime minister in 2007-2010.
Prosecutors have launched at least three criminal cases against her.
She stands accused of wrongdoing when brokering a 2009 natural gas supply agreement with Russia, in misspending funds raised under the Kyoto Protocol and of wasting funds to purchase automobiles for Ukraine’s rural hospitals.
A handful of officials who served in Tymoshenko’s government are currently behind bars.
Two have been in pretrial detention for almost one year. They include former deputy head of state gas company Naftogaz Ihor Didenko and former Customs Service chief Anatoly Makarenko.
Ihor Lutsenko, Ukranie’s ex-Interior Minister, has been behind bars since December 2010.
Tymoshenko, head of the Batkivshchyna party, says the investigations are politically motivated attacks orchestrated by her rival, President Viktor Yanukovych.
On May 23, she met with a group of ambassadors from European Union countries to reiterate such concerns.
Video: Tymoshenko speaks to reporters and supporters at the Prosecutor’s Office
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