Third Ukrainian President (2005-2010) and Our Ukraine Party leader Viktor Yuschenko on Friday arrived at the main investigation department of the Prosecutor General's Office.
The party’s press service reported on January 20 that Yuschenko had been summoned to the Prosecutor General’s Office in the case on his poisoning. It said that this is the first time Yuschenko has been summoned to give testimony as a victim. The Prosecutor General’s Office earlier invited him to give additional blood samples.
On September 5, 2004, then presidential candidate Yuschenko was taken ill after having dinner with the leadership of the Security Service of Ukraine. He was hospitalized in Vienna on September 10. Doctors there said Yuschenko had been poisoned with dioxin. Moreover, they said the poison had been administered five days before his hospitalization. After that, a number of medical tests were conducted. An examination conducted late in May 2006 confirmed the presence of dioxin in Yuschenko’s body.
In November 2009, the Verkhovna Rada’s temporary investigative commission conducting an inquiry into Yuschenko’s poisoning in 2004 stressed the need to conduct new studies of the tests that would confirm the scenario of the poisoning.
