Former Ukrainian Prime Minister and Batkivschyna Party leader Yulia Tymoshenko has arrived at the main investigative department of the Prosecutor General's Office to study the materials of a criminal case opened against her on the Russian-Ukrainian gas contracts signed in 2009.
Tymoshenko came together with her defense lawyer, MP Serhiy Vlasenko.
"Today we have come to the Prosecutor General’s Office not because we have to come according to the law… Today we on our own initiative can come, or not come, to study the case, as foreseen by the law, but we regardless of anything have come here to show once again that for us this is just a show that they are organizing – it’s just the show," she said before visiting the Prosecutor General’s Office on Wednesday.
A day earlier, Tymoshenko said that the Prosecutor General’s Office had no right to demand she study the materials of her case, since this could be done on a voluntary basis. At the same time, she said she would come to the Prosecutor General’s Office and would not hide.
"They have proposed that we study the materials of the case tomorrow, but I want to remind you that under the current legislation studying the case is a voluntary matter. They tried today to give me a summons to force me to come," she said.
As reported, the Ukrainian Prosecutor General’s Office said that the pre-trial investigation into the case against Tymoshenko on gas contracts signed in 2009 had been completed. The Ukrainian Code of Criminal Procedure requires that defendants examine the criminal case materials after the investigation is complete.
