Putin want to interrogate in the case of Tymoshenko

Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin will be summoned for interrogation as part of an investigation of the case against former Prime Minister of Ukraine Yulia Tymoshenko under gas contracts in 2009, Ukrainian Pravda reports citing lawyer Yulia Tymoshenko Bogdan Fernets. "During the presentation of the prosecution to the investigator of the Prosecutor General’s Office for particularly important cases, Nechoglod was asked the question: will the Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin as an accomplice of the" crime "were questioned in this case? Nechgoglod replied that Putin would be questioned in the near future, because without this the case would be impossible to be transferred to the court," Ferenz said.

At the same time, Ferenz expressed doubt that Putin’s interrogation was an independent decision of the investigator. “From experience, we know that all decisions in this case are made in the office of Viktor Yanukovych,” Ferenz said.

Meanwhile, the Prosecutor General’s Office denied the information to Putin’s possible interrogation. “We categorically refute such a statement that appeared in the media,” the head of the press service of the Prosecutor General Yuri Boychenko told RIA Novosti.

On Wednesday, the Prosecutor General’s Office of Ukraine presented Yulia Tymoshenko to the decision to institute the third criminal case against her, which is already concerned with gas contracts, Tymoshenko herself said after visiting the Main Investigation Department of the Prosecutor General’s Office. “I just got a two and a half sheet. They described how I incorrectly signed a gas agreement in 2009. And the fact that they are incriminating me is essentially that the excess of official powers,” Tymoshenko said. She stated that the case "has no reason."

Previously, two criminal cases were instituted against Tymoshenko, which later combined into one production of 180 volumes. In this case, the Prosecutor General’s Office accuses Tymoshenko of exceeding official powers, abuse of official position, resulting in grave consequences and violations of budget legislation. The ex-prime minister is now getting acquainted with the materials of the criminal case and is regularly in the Prosecutor General.

The head of the Provisional Investigation Commission on the investigation of the circumstances of the signing of gas agreements of 2008-2009 Inna Theological The Theological previously stated that Ukraine intends to seek a revision of gas contracts, since the directives on the basis of which these agreements were signed were false. Kyiv and Moscow were negotiating the supply of gas to Ukraine and its transit to Europe at the end of December 2008, but they ended in nothing. According to Gazprom, President Viktor Yushchenko personally withdrew from Moscow the head of Naftogaz Oleg Dubin.

In early 2009, Russia stopped supplying gas to Ukraine due to the lack of a contract, and then to Europe, since Kyiv selected certain volumes of fuel for its needs. The conflict ended with the signing of contracts on January 19 in Moscow in the presence of the prime ministers of the two countries of Vladimir Putin and Yulia Tymoshenko. Yushchenko accused Tymoshenko of not fulfilling his directives for maintaining gas negotiations, and also called signed agreements unprofitable for the country.

According to the Theologian, all the directives on the basis of which gas contracts were signed were fabricated. The theological explained that the directives could appear on the basis of the decision of the Cabinet of Ministers and this decision of the Cabinet of Ministers should have been executed by the relevant order. However, according to the Theological, all members of the Tymoshenko government were against such directives and refused to vote for them.