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Former Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko has said that the Prosecutor General's Office has completed a pre-trial investigation into claims that she spent money earmarked in the state budget for environmental spending to cover Ukraine's pension arrears during the economic crisis.

"The case has already been forwarded to me. I will study it," Tymoshenko told journalists in Kyiv on Thursday, after answering investigators’ questions for more than 11 hours.

On December 20, the Ukrainian Prosecutor General’s Office charged the former premier with "single-handedly deciding to use part of the proceeds earned through the sale of greenhouse gas emission quotas to cover the Ukrainian state budget’s expenditure, primarily pension commitments."

According to prosecutors, Tymoshenko misused 380 million euro.

She was ordered not to leave Kyiv.

The cabinet has calculated that Tymoshenko’s decision to convert the funds allocated under the Kyoto Protocol into the Ukrainian national currency cost the state budget around one million hryvnias.

Tymoshenko was interrogated for six hours on Wednesday.

Tymoshenko has said more than once that she is not afraid of being arrested.