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The defense lawyer of former Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko, MP Serhiy Vlasenko, has said that the Ukrainian Prosecutor General's Office is manipulating the facts in accusing Tymoshenko of hindering its investigative actions.

"Today we again expect improperness from the Prosecutor General’s Office," Vlasenko said at a briefing in the Ukrainian parliament on Tuesday.

"Yesterday I came to investigator [Oleksandr] Nechvohlod [who is conducting the investigation into the criminal case opened against Tymoshenko], who officially presented a summons to me for today for 10 a.m. Here is this summons and here is my note. The note is the following: that I on May 16, 2011 informed investigator Nechvohlod that Tymoshenko was ill, and consequently she will not be able to come to investigator Nechvohlod today for investigative actions," Vlasenko said.

At the same time, according to Tymoshenko’s defense lawyer, a document confirming her illness will be submitted to the investigator in line with the set procedures.

"Tymoshenko does not have any dreadful disease. She has simply caught a cold, but because of the state of health she is not able to come to the Ukrainian Prosecutor General’s Office today," Vlasenko said.

"At the same time, I will point out once against that we expect another lie from the Prosecutor General’s Office that Tymoshenko is again hindering investigative actions," he said.