Leader of Batkivschyna party and former Ukrainian prime minister Yulia Tymoshenko will insist on a face-to-face interrogation with former president Viktor Yuschenko, her attorney Serhiy Vlasenko has said.
"The only thing that has not happened is a face-to-face interrogation of Tymoshenko and Yuschenko. And we will insist on it," Vlasenko said in a Sunday interview with Radio Liberty speaking of the examination of the findings of the criminal case by his client.
He said that several criminal cases have been launched against Tymoshenko. "The first one is the gas case, the second concerns Kyoto [Protocol] money that has been combined with the case of vehicles for rural medical services," the attorney said.
"Court rulings restrict us in the time of examination [of the findings]. We were given eight days to examine 14 volumes of the case. And this time expires on June 16 or on Thursday," he said.
He said that on that day or the following the investigator can compile the indictment and submit it for approval to the relevant prosecutor. "In a day or two after that, I think, the case will be sent to Kyiv’s Pechersk court," he said.
The lawyer said that documents in the case "confirm that the Tymoshenko-Putin intergovernmental memorandum was signed at Tymoshenko’s initiative in October 2007 and under the memorandum the price of the gas was $235 for 1,000 cubic meters for 2009."
"When these terms were agreed [the then CEO of Naftogaz Oleh] Dubyna reported the fact to President Yuschenko. To that Yuschenko said: "Listen, guy, I forbid you to sign the contract." This clearly follows from Dubyna’s explanations," Vlasenko said.
"When Tymoshenko brought the price to $235, Yuschenko ordered Dubyna to leave the talks without stating any reasons and not to attend them anymore. After that the Russian side raised the price first to $320, then to $418 and then it said: "You, Ukrainians, will be buying Russian gas at $450 [for 1,000 cubic meters]"," Vlasenko added.
