KHARKIV - Investigators from the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) have arrived in Kachanivska penal colony to hold investigatory procedures with former Ukrainian Premier Yulia Tymoshenko.
"The investigators have arrived, [and] they submitted all of the necessary documents," said the head of the colony, Ivan Pervushkin.
Tymoshenko’s defense lawyer Serhiy Vlasenko confirmed the report.
"I was informed that today the investigators were to hold investigative procedures for the first time after the transfer of Yulia Volodymyrivna [to the colony]. But I don’t know what investigatory proceedings there will be and how many of them will be held," Vlasenko said.
He also said that he was planning to visit Tymoshenko on Friday irrespective of the investigative actions.
On Oct. 11, 2011, the Pechersky District Court in Kyiv sentenced Tymoshenko to seven years in prison for abuse of office in signing a gas deal with Russia in 2009.
Tymoshenko has been in a pre-trial detention center in Kyiv since Aug. 5, 2011. On Dec. 30, she was transferred to Kachanivska penal colony No. 54 in Kharkiv.
The Main Investigatory Department of the SBU continues investigating into a criminal case against Tymoshenko on an attempt to embezzle state funds of Ukraine in especially big amounts via passing to the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine obligations of the United Energy Systems of Ukraine (UESU) corporation before the Defense Ministry of Russia for $405.5 million.
Kyiv’s Shevchenkivsky District Court ordered to arrest Tymoshenko under the UESU case. In connection with this, Tymoshenko is kept in a pretrial detention center of Kachanivska colony in Kharkiv and is not involved in community work.
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