An investigator of the Prosecutor General's Office has said that former Ukrainian Prime Minister and Batkivschyna Party leader Yulia Tymoshenko is twisting the facts of the investigation in a criminal case opened against her, and this has been confirmed in a video recording of investigative actions.
"Today the media published a statement by Tymoshenko that I, the investigator on the case, am not planning to change the measure of restraint against her and that statements by the press service of the Prosecutor General’s Office are untrue… I had no conversation about this with the defendant and this can be confirmed in a video recording of the investigation," the Prosecutor General’s Office said in a statement on Wednesday.
The investigator said that on Wednesday, May 4, Tymoshenko had arrived for interrogation with Ukrainian MP Serhiy Vlasenko and insisted that he should be allowed to act as a lawyer in the case.
The investigator said that he had refused to allow Vlasenko to act as Tymoshenko’s lawyer on April 21, because "it is prohibited by Ukrainian law."
"As for the statement by Tymoshenko about the change of the measure of restraint against her, I categorically state that it is misleading and is aimed at distorting public opinion. After Tymoshenko began to constantly misrepresent what happened during the investigation, all of the actions involving her are recorded on video," the investigator said.
Tymoshenko told journalists in Kyiv on Wednesday after her visit to the main investigation department of the Prosecutor General’s Office: "I asked the investigator why he’s making public statements for the mass media that I’m violating the law, that I’m hindering the investigation, and that he [the investigator] will allegedly change the measure of restraint. He was very surprised. He said he had made no statements. And when I specified that this is the statement by the press service of the Prosecutor General’s Office, he said that he had nothing to do with the press service."
