The Prosecutor General's Office of Ukraine has prohibited investigatory actions regarding the case of the poisoning of Viktor Yushchenko, the Ukrainska Pravda online publication has reported with reference to its sources.
According to the Ukrainska Pravda, Deputy Prosecutor General of Ukraine Volodymyr Schetkin, who supervises the investigation of the case, has signed a relevant order.
Sources of the Ukrainska Pravda say the fact that Vice Prime Minister of Ukraine Volodymyr Sivkovych didn’t come to interrogation to the Prosecutor General’s Office on Wednesday could be a possible reason for such a decision.
On Wednesday, March 31, Sivkovych said he was ready go to the Prosecutor General’s Office for interrogation, although not with Halyna Klymovych, the head of the investigation group on Yuschenko’s poisoning, but directly to the prosecutor general.
In the last few years Sivkovych has been called in for questionings on the case on Yuschenko’s poisoning several times, but did not respond. At that time he had MP immunity.
The Ukrainian parliament recently terminated the deputy mandate of Sivkovych as he took the post of vice prime minister.
As an MP, Sivkovych headed the Ukrainian parliament’s ad hoc commission investigating the poisoning of then presidential candidate Viktor Yuschenko and demanded the dismissal of head of the investigation group on this case, Klymovych. Sivkovych said the parliament’s commission, which he headed, came to the conclusion that there was no poisoning with dioxin, but there were "only falsifications" in the case.
