The Ukrainian State Penitentiary Service has denied a statement by former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko's public defender Serhiy Vlasenko claiming that she is going to be discharged from the hospital and transferred back to the penitentiary before her medical treatment is completed, the electronic version of the Kyiv daily newspaper Segodnya reported on Saturday.
“We do not confirm a single word from Vlasenko’s statement. The transfer is not being discussed until the doctors make a final statement,” Ihor Andrushko, an aide to the head of the State Penitentiary Service, was quoted as saying.
Vlasenko said on Friday that Tymoshenko’s discharge from the hospital and her subsequent transfer to the Kachanivska penitentiary in Kharkiv was being prepared. “This is being done with the only purpose to transfer the person who has not received the necessary treatment back to the penitentiary and then, as was done in Kyiv, drag her every day to the hearings on the far-fetched UESU case,” Vlasenko told journalists on Friday near the hospital where Tymoshenko is receiving treatment.
