The State Penitentiary Service has published on its Web site a document confirming that former Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko categorically refuses to attend a court sitting on the criminal case on the murder of Ukrainian parliamentarian Yevhen Scherban. The sitting is to be held in Kyiv on Feb. 13.
“On February 12, 2013 at 1026 the summon of Kyiv Pechersky District Court to participate in a court hearing on February 13, 2013, at 1400, was repeatedly read aloud to convict Tymoshenko, born in 1960. Convict Tymoshenko categorically refused to attend the court sitting on Feb. 13, 2013,” reads the document.
The document was signed by three employees of the prison service, including the deputy head of the Kachanivska Penal Colony.
“We’re calling on the convict’s lawyers to stop spreading false information regarding the work of the State Penitentiary Service of Ukraine,” reads the prison service’s statement.
Earlier on Tuesday, the State Penitentiary Service reported that Tymoshenko categorically refused to participate in investigatory proceedings on the Scherban murder case scheduled for Feb. 13. The prison service noted that it had a document confirming this.
Later on, Tymoshenko’s defense lawyer, Serhiy Vlasenko, stated that the ex-premier never refused to participate in the investigatory proceedings either in writen, or in oral form.
