Ukrainian Security Service (SBU) investigator Mykola Hrabyk has allowed Serhiy Vlasenko, a defense lawyer of former Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko, to visit the ex-premier constantly.
"I have decided to grant Vlasenko, Tymoshenko’s defense lawyer, the permission to visit her constantly, and her daughter, Yevheniya, was granted the permission to meet with Tymoshenko twice a week," he said in an interview with Interfax-Ukraine on Wednesday.
He also said that investigators were considering all of Tymoshenko’s petitions in line with current law.
As reported, a new criminal case was opened against Tymoshenko on October 12 for laying the burden of the debts of the UESU corporation on the Ukrainian budget. The Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) said that the reason for launching a new criminal case against the former Ukrainian prime minister was a letter from the Russian Defense Ministry to the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine, which raised the issue of repaying the corporation’s debt of $405.5 million.
On October 11, 2011, the Pechersky District Court in Kyiv sentenced Tymoshenko to seven years in prison for abuse of office in signing a gas deal with Russia in 2009.
Tymoshenko has been in a pre-trial detention center in Kyiv since August 5, 2011. On December 30, she was transferred to the Kachanivska penal colony in Kharkiv.
