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Defense lawyer of former Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko, MP Serhiy Vlasenko has stated that experts of Kyiv Forensic Medicine Bureau are falsifying evidence in a criminal case against him. 

“Today Kyiv Forensic Medicine Bureau is making a falsified forensic medicine examination on the events that occurred two years ago and are streamlining it with the data needed by the Prosecutor General’s Office to open criminal cases against me,” Vlasenko said at a press conference on Friday.

“I mean alleged physical damage allegedly caused by me… Now they are falsifying [a case on] injuries of moderate severity under articles of the Criminal Code,” he said.

Vlasenko added that pressure is being posed on witnesses in the case to make them change their testimony against him.

“I know for sure that the witnesses in the case, who two years ago gave absolutely fair and correct testimony, today tell absolutely opposite things under pressure of [First Deputy Prosecutor General] Renat Kuzmin. They are doing this in order to play a scene at the Verkhovna Rada [Ukraine’s parliament] on Feb. 20 to draw me to criminal responsibility,” Vlasenko said.

As reported, on Jan. 21 Vlasenko stated that he might be arrested soon. The MP said that the cases against him were opened non-fulfillment of court rulings and banditry.

Vlasenko also said that he was accused of non-fulfillment of court rulings under a ruling of Kyiv’s Pechersky District Court on the partition of his and his ex-wife Natalia Okunska’s joint property.

In addition, according to Vlasenko, who is a people’s deputy and a member of the Verkhovna Rada’s Delegation to PACE, is not allowed to leave the country under a ruling of District Administrative Court dated Jan. 15.

Meanwhile, Renat Kuzmin said that the PGO does not plan to arrest Vlasenko, although his ex-wife, Natalia Okunska, filed another appeal against him this year.