BYT leader Yulia Tymoshenko has asked the parliament commission investigating the adoption by the Stockholm Arbitration Tribunal of a ruling obliging Naftogaz to return 11 billion cubic meters of natural gas to RosUkrEnergo to invite Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych to a meeting to provide explanations.
"I think it’s necessary to invite President Viktor Yanukovych to provide explanations to the investigative commission," she said on Monday.
"If they are ready to testify, they will come and defend their position," Tymoshenko said, adding that a commission meeting should also be attended by everybody involved in the work of RosUkrEnergo, in particular, its co-owner Dmytro Firtash, head of the Ukrainian presidential administration Serhiy Liovochkin, Fuel and Energy Minister Yuriy Boiko and Naftogaz CEO Yevhen Bakulin.
At a meeting of the commission, Tymoshenko handed Our Ukraine-People’s Self-Defense faction member Roman Zvarych the documents pointing to the involvement of Fuel and Energy Minister Yuriy Boiko and Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) Chief Valeriy Khoroshkovsky in RosUkrEnergo’s activities.
Tymoshenko thanked the parliamentary faction for the creation of the commissions, and expressed hope that its work would be objective.
"They [the authorities] took control of the Verkhovna Rada and law enforcement bodies. They have even appointed a representative of Donetsk as chairman of the Constitutional Court… And now they want to take control of the whole country," she said.
Tymoshenko said that current decisions by the authorities, which are trying to implement the ruling of the Stockholm Arbitration Tribunal, would try not only to return RosUkrEnergo’s money, but also to bring Naftogaz Ukrainy to bankruptcy.
