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Wednesday, 20 April 2011 08:54 |
KIEV, April 20. General Prosecutor of Ukraine has chosen the punishment in the form of undertaking not to leave the place for ex-Prime Minister of Ukraine, the leader of the opposition party "Fatherland" Yulia Tymoshenko in the framework of the "Gas" case, the spokesman for the Prosecutor General Yuri Boychenko told to RIA Novosti on Wednesday.
General Prosecutor's Office last week filed a criminal case against the former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko and ex-head of Naftogaz Oleg Dubina.
They are suspected of exceeding authority during the agreement on deliveries of Russian gas in 2009.
According to investigators, Tymoshenko caused enormous damage to the state and jeopardized the economic security of the country.
Earlier, two criminal cases against Tymoshenko for exceeding authority under the procurement of medical vehicles and the use of funds under the Kyoto Protocol were opened, and later they were merged into one proceeding.
Then she also got a written undertaking not to leave the place as a preventive measure.
"Today, Julia Vladimirovna has been in the interrogation as a suspect.
The investigator chose the undertaking not to leave the place as a preventive measure", - said Boichenko.
On Wednesday in the afternoon Tymoshenko wrote on Twitter that "at this moment, they are announcing my third undertaking not to leave the place". "Now I am travel banned for the third time" - said the ex-prime minister.
Kiev and Moscow have been negotiating on gas supplies to Ukraine and its transit to Europe in late December 2008, but they all came to nothing - according to Gazprom, the President Viktor Yushchenko personally withdrew the head of Naftogaz from Moscow.
The first days of 2009 made history as the period of "gas conflict" when Russia cut off gas supplies to Ukraine due to the absence of a contract, and then to Europe as Kiev used certain amounts of fuel for its needs.
The conflict ended with the signing of contracts on 19 January in Moscow in the presence of Prime Ministers Vladimir Putin and Yulia Tymoshenko.
Yushchenko accused Tymoshenko of failing to follow his directives at gas talks and called the signed agreement disadvantageous to the country.
Current Ukrainian leadership calls gas agreements with Russia bondage and seeks to review them in every way. |
