Neil Buckley and Roman Olearchyk write:"Ukrainian prosecutors say they are probing whether Yulia Tymoshenko was involved in ordering a 1990s contract killing, opening a new legal front against the former prime minister and one-time Orange Revolution leader. The move could intensify Ukraine’s political stand-off with the west over Tymoshenko’s jailing last year on abuse of office charges which have been condemned by the European Union and U.S. as politically motivated. European and U.S. officials suspect Viktor Yanukovych, Ukraine’s president, of using prosecutions to sideline his political opponents."
Financial Times: Tymoshenko faces murder probe
A Ukrainian deputy prosecutor told the Financial Times that money from companies of former Ukrainian prime ministers Pavlo Lazarenko and Yulia Tymoshenko paid contract killers to murder businessman-politician Yevhen Shcherban in 1996. Both deny ordering the murder.
