The former first deputy chief of the Security Service of Ukraine, Volodymyr Satsiuk, who in involved in a criminal case on the poisoning of Ukraine's third president, Viktor Yuschenko, is cooperating with the investigation agencies of the Prosecutor General's Office, the PGO says.
"Satsiuk does visit Ukraine. It’s not a secret. Satsiuk has been summoned to the PGO many times. He has been questioned many times, participated in investigative actions and if need be will continue to participate in them," Ukraine’s Acting Prosecutor General Renat Kuzmin has said.
On September 5, 2004, then presidential candidate Yuschenko was taken ill after having dinner with the leadership of the Security Service of Ukraine at the dacha belonging to Satsiuk. Yuschenko was hospitalized in Vienna on September 10. Doctors said he 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 2005, a criminal case was opened against Satsiuk on charges of unlawfully conferring a military rank, and he went to Russia, where he has lived in recent years. From 2005 until 2007, the ex-official was on a wanted list, but after receiving Russian citizenship he was removed from the list.
Last year, Satsiuk was questioned as a witness in the case on Yuschenko’s poisoning.
The media reported recently that Satsшuk had been seen in Malyn, Zhytomyr region.
