The Prosecutor General's Office of Ukraine (PGO) and the State Penitentiary service of Ukraine do not know whether former Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko will agree to be taken from Kharkiv to Kyiv on Feb. 13 to attend the interrogation of a witness in the criminal case on the murder of Ukrainian parliamentarian Yevhen Scherban.
“Considering the fact that today Tymoshenko wrote a refusal to attend tomorrow’s court hearing [at Kyivsky District Court in Kharkiv on the criminal case on the activities of the United Energy Systems of Ukraine (UESU) Corporation], I think she will apply the same formula to the situation on February 13,” the spokesman for the prison service, Ihor Andrushko, told journalists on Monday.
Meanwhile, the PGO’s press service told journalists the following: “The information on the possible participation or non-participation of Tymoshenko in the court hearing is in the competence only of the penitentiary service.”
On Feb. 7, Judge of Kyiv Pechersky District Court Oksana Tsarevych ruled to put off until Feb. 13 investigatory proceedings on the Scherban murder case by request of former Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko, who is suspected of being involved in the crime. The court also ordered the penitentiary service to take Tymoshenko to a court sitting of Kyiv Court of Appeals.
