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Former Ukrainian Prime Minister and Batkivschyna Party leader Yulia Tymoshenko on Wednesday disrupted investigative actions in a criminal case opened against her, the press service of the Prosecutor General's Office (PGO) has reported.

"Yulia Tymoshenko was invited to the main department for the investigation of particularly important cases of the Prosecutor General’s Office for 1100 yesterday, April 27, 2011, in order to participate in the holding of investigative actions in a criminal case [opened against her]. Despite the receipt of a summons, Tymoshenko came to the investigator only after 1700. She declined to disclose the reasons for her absence," the Prosecutor General’s Office said in a statement released on Thursday morning.

Then, despite the holding of investigative actions and without waiting for their completion, Tymoshenko’s lawyer left the building of the main department for the investigation of particularly important cases, "thereby disrupting investigative actions," the PGO said.

In this connection, Tymoshenko was summoned to the Prosecutor General’s Office for 1000 on Thursday.

Tymoshenko said Wednesday that she has filed a lawsuit in a U.S. court against a controversial company over alleged corruption in natural gas trade with Russia.

Tymoshenko, who herself is under investigation for alleged financial misdeeds, filed the lawsuit in a New York federal court against Swiss-based RosUkrEnergo, which is jointly owned by Russia’s energy giant Gazprom and Ukrainian businessman Dmytro Firtash.

The Kyiv Post has obtained a copy of the lawsuit filed in a U.S. court by former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko, accusing businessman Dmytro Firtash, gas trader RosUkrEnergo and Ukraine’s political leadership of "racketeering" and defrauding Ukrainians of billion-dollar volumes of natural gas by manipulating an international arbitration court ruling.
Firtash says he hasn’t not received any notification of legal action from any courts in New York, according to his press-service.

Firtash does not believe that Tymoshenko has any grounds for challenging such decision in New York or in any other Forum.

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