Prosecutor summons Tymoshenko

Imagine if Obama had George McCain arrested?

Its John McCain...

And its Kuchma who should be arrested!

let her finish her latest plastic surgery.. before trying her..

How credible are the allegations of POR - a political force funded mainly by the Russian mafia - via Firtash.... who admits these criminal links???

Nothing will come of these trumped up charges against Batkivshchina... but its only a matter of time before POR will be rocked by the mountains of evidence against them, pointing to murders, repressions and orgnised crime... their heads will roll, and it will destroy the Party of Regions forever.

The lawsuit filed on behalf of Ukrvaktsina against Olden Group and Interfarm (a Ukrainian LLC based in Kyiv) in the US District Court in Oregon just recently does NOT indicate any abuse of office or theft by Tymoshenko.

Rather, the lawsuit very clearly states that Ukrvaktsina was defrauded by Olden Group and Interfarm in connetion with the purchase of vaccines by Ukrvaktsina at double the manufacturer's price.

That is, Interfarm and Olden Group conspired to buy vaccines from the manufacturer, then charged Ukrvaktsina double the price by the time the vaccines got to Ukraine through a series of falsified invoices to get around Ukraine's statute which limits profits on sales to government agencies to 10%.

The lawsuit says absolutely nothing about Tymoshenko being tied in with Interfarm or Olden Group.

The money paid to Intefarm and Olden Group wound up in Parex Bank in Latvia.

Similarly, the Kroll report, mistakenly referred to as an "international audit," did NOT show that Tymoshenko's government "misappropriated" millions of dollars.

It did show that purchases of vaccines and automobiles were made through intermediaries, such as Lakshmi Auto, and that the Ukrainians government ended up paying inflated prices due to fraud by the intermediaries.

It was the Yanukonvikt and some of the early Akin Gump/Trout Cacheris law firm press releases that "transformed" the Kroll report (again, it was not an audit)into some sort of accusation of personal misappropriation of funds by Tymoshenko.

Which, of course, is a lie, because there is nothing in the Kroll report that shows that Tymoshenko took money personally for herself.

The Kyiv Post has previously provided links to the Kroll report. On the Savik Shuster show, Tommy, the representative from Kroll, admitted that it was an investigative report, and not an audit.

The Kroll report does allege that the Tymoshenko government took money for carbon credits under the Kyoto protocol from Japan, and then used it for general budget purchases instead of for "green" environmental projects as theoretically required by treaty, but not by Ukrainian statutes.

That also is disputed.

This is a soviet-style political show trial against Tymoshenko.

True, she has a gigantic, huge ego, but that's not a crime - it simply interferes with her ability to fully grasp democracy.

But her grasp of democracy is far, far better than that of Yanukonvikt and his gangsters in government.

Yanukonvikt and his gangsters in government don't care about democracy - only about getting rid of Tymoshenko and getting rid of all opposition.

Welcome to Firtashia.