The administration of Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych has demanded that the law enforcement agencies subordinated to it charge former Ukrainian Premier and Leader of the Batkivschyna Party Yulia Tymoshenko of being involved in murder, according to the press service of the Batkivschyna Party.
"According to information from honest employees of the Security Service of Ukraine and the Prosecutor General’s Office, who are fed up with carrying out illegal the political orders of the authorities, First Deputy Prosecutor General Renat Kuzmin received a cynical order, with reference to the head of state, to charge Yulia Tymoshenko of allegedly being connected to murders and terrorism, in particular, the murders of Vadym Hetman and Yevhen Scherban," reads the party’s statement.
The party said that, despite the authorities’ plans, Tymoshenko’s innocence and "the absolute groundlessness of the criminal case opened against her has become obvious in Ukraine and abroad."
Tymoshenko’s supporters added that any provocations against their leader would fall to peaces "because the truth is on her side."
In 1996 MP Yevhen Scherban was shot dead by a group of people in Donetsk airport upon his arrival from Moscow.
In 1998 Vadym Hetman, the former National Bank of Ukraine governor, was killed in the elevator of his apartment block in Kyiv.
