Former Ukrainian Premier Yulia Tymoshenko has described as absurd accusations against her of involvement in organization of murder of MP Yevhen Scherban.
"Linking me with the Scherban case has no sense, it’s absurd," reads a statement by Tymoshenko distributed by the press service of the Batkivschyna Party on Monday.
"I will never forgive their involving the son of the person that died in this shameful scenario. This is a real tragedy for him, and not a reason for press conferences and statements. They put a child in front of the public and made him to speculate about the memory of his dead father. I don’t know where such monsters come from and in whose heads such ideas appear," reads the statement.
"I want to believe that the son of Yevhen Scherban will realize how meanly and basely they used him, and will not do that again. This is a moral issue. The one that will assess [actions] on Earth does not live in Mezhyhirya," Tymoshenko said.
The Prosecutor General’s Office of Ukraine is investigating into possible involvement of Tymoshenko in the killing of Donetsk businessman Scherban.
In 1996 MP Scherban was shot dead by a group of people in Donetsk airport upon his arrival from Moscow. As a result, the MP, his wife and mechanic died. A flight engineer died in a hospital due to a gunshot wound to the neck.
At a press conference on April 4, Scherban’s son, Yevhen, said that he had passed to the Prosecutor General’s Office of Ukraine documents on the possible involvement of former Ukrainian Premier Yulia Tymoshenko and former Ukrainian Premier Pavlo Lazarenko in the murder of his father.
