BYT leader Yulia Tymoshenko has said that the Main Investigative Department of the Prosecutor General's Office (PGO) has given her a writ on the opening of a criminal case against her, which was investigated in 2003, and summoned her to the PGO on May 17 for questioning.
"I received a writ on the Kuchma-era falsified case of May 19, 2003. This case was based on fraudulent claims from people who were put up to it by the Security Service of Ukraine at that time," she told reporters on Wednesday, while leaving the building of the PGO Main Investigative Department, where she was called to receive a writ on the opening of a criminal case.
"I got a summons for Monday, May 17. They’re inviting me next Monday to select a preventive measure and question me as a suspect," Tymoshenko said.
However, she declined to specify which criminal case was in question. However, a criminal case against Tymoshenko on her giving bribes to judges was investigated in 2003.
"[Former President Leonid] Kuchma closed this case, as it seemed absurd, even for dependent and corrupt courts," she said, adding that the prosecutors closed the criminal case in 2004-2005.
Interfax-Ukraine learned that the issue concerned Tymoshenko’s giving bribes to judges of the Supreme Court of Ukraine in order to release her relatives from custody.
