Batkivschyna Party leader and former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko arrived at the main investigative department of the Prosecutor General's Office on Wednesday as a defendant in the case on the misspending of funds allocated under the Kyoto Protocol, an Interfax-Ukraine reporter has said.
As reported, on December 20, the Prosecutor General’s Office filed charges against Tymoshenko that she, while holding the post of prime minister, "single-handedly decided to use part of the funds earned through the sale of greenhouse gas emission quotas to cover the Ukrainian state budget’s expenditure, primarily pension commitments." Tymoshenko was banned from travelling outside Kyiv.
The Prosecutor General’s Office said that Tymoshenko’s order to convert the funds allocated under the Kyoto Protocol into the national currency had caused nearly UAH 1 million worth of damage to the state budget.
Tymoshenko last visited the Prosecutor General’s Office on Dec. 27.
