A criminal case opened against former Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko over the concealing of foreign currency earnings while she worked for United Energy Systems of Ukraine (UESU) corporation has been closed, the Ukrainian Security Service (SBU) said.
"Due to the decriminalization of Article 207 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine (80-1 in the 1960 version) the criminal charge of concealing foreign-currency earnings against Tymoshenko has been dropped," the service said.
The investigation of other counts of "Tymoshenko’s criminal activity" continues, it said.
According to the statement, during the investigation into the case it was discovered that one of means of budget fund embezzlement was a financial scheme for concealing foreign currency earnings and the forgery of documents on payments for goods and material valuables by offshore companies to the UESU corporation.
The SBU recalled that on Jan. 17, 2012 the law of Ukraine on the decriminalization of economic crimes in the Criminal Code took effect.
According to the law, criminal liability for some illegal actions, including concealing of foreign currency earnings, was cancelled.
On Oct. 11, 2011, Pechersky District Court in Kyiv sentenced Tymoshenko to seven years in prison for abuse of office in signing a gas deal with Russia in 2009.
Tymoshenko was put in a pre-trial detention center in Kyiv on Aug. 5, 2011. On Dec. 30, she was transferred to Kachanivska penal colony No. 54 in Kharkiv.
The Main Investigatory Department of the SBU is continuing to investigate a criminal case against Tymoshenko on an attempt to embezzle state funds of Ukraine in especially big amounts via passing to the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine obligations of the United Energy Systems of Ukraine (UESU) corporation before the Defense Ministry of Russia for $405.5 million.
Kyiv’s Shevchenkivsky District Court ordered the arrest of Tymoshenko under the UESU case. Because of this, Tymoshenko is being held in the pretrial detention center of the Kachanivska colony in Kharkiv and is not involved in community work.
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