Former Ukrainian Prime Minister and Batkivschyna Party leader Yulia Tymoshenko has asked Rodion Kireyev, the judge of Kyiv's Pechersky District Court who is presiding in the Russian gas supply contract case against her, when passing a sentence on her, to take into account the absence of losses from the use of technical gas in 2009.
While continuing to testify after a break in a court session on Wednesday, Tymoshenko, referring to the testimony provided by Halyna Ilchuk, an expert from the Kyiv Research Institute of Forensic Science, drew attention to the fact that while processing data, it was necessary to refer to data from primary accounting documents.
"Contrary to the law on accounting, an analysis of the prime price [of gas], which has nothing to do with the real price of technical gas, was taken as the basis in the examination and the indictment," Tymoshenko said.
She said again that in 2009, gas was supplied under a contract signed on December 17, 2008, rather than under the 2009 contract.
"The gas transport system was provided with technical gas in 2009 on the basis of an agreement that was drawn up before the gas crisis," Tymoshenko said.
She said she was indignant that the investigator deliberately incorrectly counted the losses.
Tymoshenko also recalled that the materials included a document from the Main Control and Revision Office, which states in detail at which price the technical gas was supplied.
"What loss is the Prosecutor General’s Office talking about? Did investigator [Oleksandr] Nechvohlod know that there were no accounting losses? Yes, he knew. He possessed this information, and he just [said there was a loss] because there was an instruction from high-ranking officials," she said.
She noted that the case materials showed there were no losses.
"I’m asking you to make a conclusion that there were no losses from the use of technical gas," Tymoshenko said, while addressing Judge Kireyev.
