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A phonoscopic examination has confirmed the authenticity of the voices of the leader of the Movement of New Forces party and former Georgian president, Mikheil Saakashvili, and fugitive Ukrainian businessman Serhiy Kurchenko, which were recorded by Ukrainian law enforcers, spokeswoman for the Prosecutor General’s Office of Ukraine (PGO) Larysa Sarhan has said.

“The Ukrainian Research Institute of Special Equipment and Judicial Examinations of the Security Service of Ukraine conducted a phonoscopic examination confirming the authenticity of voices on recorded conversations between Saakashvili and Kurchenko,” she wrote on her Facebook page on Dec.29.

According to Sarhan, the words and phrases belong to Saakashvili and Kurchenko were personified in the protocol based on the results of a classified forensic operation.