Three criminal cases are currently being investigated against former Ukrainian Prime Minister and Batkivschyna Party leader Yulia Tymoshenko, First Deputy Prosecutor General Renat Kuzmin said on Inter television channel early on Saturday.
"There are three such cases now, one of them being investigated by the Security Service of Ukraine and another by tax police, which concerns tax evasion by Tymoshenko as director of the UESU [United Energy Systems of Ukraine] and as an individual. One more case deals with embezzlement of budget funds by UESU in refunding VAT at the budget expense," Kuzmin said.
"They involve quite significant sums, like 200 million, 20 million, or 10 million evaded in taxes, according to documents signed personally by Yulia Volodymyrivna Tymoshenko," he said.
There are also criminal cases into an attempt to bribe Supreme Court justices by Tymoshenko, into an assault of the Chernihiv detention facility, and into a battery of a man, Kuzmin said.
Asked how many criminal cases have been initiated against Tymoshenko by prosecution authorities, Kuzmin replied: "A criminal case is a file in which materials on crimes committed are accumulated. And so one criminal case, or one file, could contain materials on ten crimes, that is, ten criminal cases."
