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A statement by former Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko, in which she denies involvement in the murder of MP Yevhen Scherban, is related to the impossibility of politicizing the trial, as her team did with the "gas case," Regions Party MP Volodymyr Oliynyk has said.

“Yulia Tymoshenko is by all means trying to avoid an open and
transparent criminal trial on charges of the contract killing of Yevhen
Scherban. She’s not afraid of the trial, she’s afraid of the evidence
that will be presented by the prosecutors. She’s afraid that people will
learn the truth about the dark spots of her biography in the middle of
the 1990s,” the party’s press service quoted him as saying.

Oliynyk said that by making a statement on her non-involvement in the
Scherban case, Tymoshenko had made no mention of whether she knew the
members of a criminal group led by Kushnir. In his opinion, if she is
silent on this issue, it proves that she is familiar with them.

“If the public recognizes her guilt during an open trial, it will be the end of Tymoshenko’s political career,” the MP said.

As reported, on January 22, Tymoshenko’s defense lawyer, Serhiy
Vlasenko, called the accusations of her involvement in the assassination
of MP Scherban in 1996 a blatant lie, which will be easy to refute in
international courts.