Representatives from U.S. law firm Covington & Burling LLP and auditing company BDO will take part in defending Ukraine's former prime minister and leader of the Batkivschyna Party Yulia Tymoshenko at the criminal proceedings in the Pechersky Court.
"The Ukrainian laws prohibit foreigners from acting as defense attorneys at Ukrainian courts but representatives from these companies will be part of the group of legal advisors who will handle these cases. They will also be part of the official group of lawyers, which will represent Tymoshenko at the European Court of Human Rights," Tymoshenko’s defense lawyer Serhiy Vlasenko told a press conference in Kyiv on Monday.
These specialists will prepare a report about the cases opened against Tymoshenko and send it to the governments and parliaments of the leading countries, the European Union, leading human rights organizations and the United Nations Human Rights Committee, he said.
