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Yulia Tymoshenko has suggested that Prosecutor General's Office investigators are deliberately barring her attorney from officially joining a criminal investigation against her regarding gas supply contracts Ukraine concluded with Russia in 2009, when she served as Ukrainian prime minister.

"They are falsifying documents this way in order to allege that I am dragging out the investigation. And then I think they will consider the possibility of replacing the pre-trial restrictive measure imposed on me, just as they said yesterday, based on the falsified documents they are compiling today," Tymoshenko told journalists on Friday after appearing at the Prosecutor General’s Office main department for special investigations.

She said no investigative procedures were conducted on Friday, as she did not have an attorney.

"As long as they do not allow my lawyer [Serhiy Vlasenko] to join the case, they have no right to conduct any investigative procedures. We did not talk about the criminal case today," she said.

Tymoshenko also said the investigator allowed her to travel to the Sumy region on May 5-6.

"I’ve received permission to travel to the Sumy region," she said.

Tymoshenko is currently barred from traveling outside Kyiv without permission from the investigative bodies.