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Lawyer of Ukraine's ex-premier Yulia Tymoshenko and former MP Serhiy Vlasenko now can travel abroad, the State Border Guard Service of Ukraine has told Interfax-Ukraine.

“The State Border Guard Service received a letter from the executive service to fulfill a court ruling regarding Vlasenko,” state Border Guard Service’s spokesman, Serhiy Astakhov, said on Wednesday.

As reported, on December 14, 2012, Vlasenko was not allowed to board a plane at Boryspil airport to fly to a European capital. The State Border Guard Service of Ukraine did not comment on the situation, referring to the law on protection of personal data.

The Web site of the TV news service of the 1+1 television channel, referring to their own sources, reported that Vlasenko wasn’t permitted to leave Boryspil airport because of the non-payment of alimony to his ex-wife Natalia Okunska.

Vlasenko denied this, but said the court ruling was indeed connected with a dispute with Okunska.

On April 3, edition ‘Law and Business’ referring to the state executive service of Pechersky district justice department in Kyiv, reported that a ban on Vlasenko’s traveling abroad had been removed, and the documents were sent on this week to the State Border Guard Service of Ukraine so they can take his name of their travel ban list.