Tymoshenko refused to judge in her absence

On Saturday, the Kiev District Court of Kharkov began to consider the case against the ex-Prime Minister of Ukraine Yulia Tymoshenko regarding the activities of the United Energy Systems of Ukraine Corporation in the absence of the defendant, UNIAN reports.

This was announced by the presiding judge Konstantin Sadovsky. According to him, Tymoshenko asked not to deliver her to court due to her state of health.

However, after the start of the hearing, it was decided to postpone the meeting for a month. The judge took into account the petition of lawyers to suspend the consideration of the Tymoshenko case before her recovery.

The state prosecutors in the Tymoshenko case stated during the previous consideration of the case, on April 19 that the ex-prime minister was accused of three points. She was presented with the plunder of budgetary funds and attempting to plunder funds from the state budget in the amount of 25 million hryvnias, the evasion of the EECA corporation from taxes in the amount of 4 million hryvnias, the use of a payment card of a foreign company, which Tymoshenko was calculated in expensive hotels and restaurants-almost $ 1 million was spent from the card from which the ex-premier did not pay Taxes.

The judge rejected all the defense petitions that demanded to stop the consideration of the case regarding the activities of the EEC Corporation until the complete recovery of Yulia Tymoshenko, the illegality of the consideration of this case in the Kiev district court of Kharkov and the transfer of consideration to the Podolsky court of Kyiv or to Dnepropetrovsk. As well as about the illegality of the ban on the photo, the video capture and the broadcast of the trial.

As Polit.ru wrote, it previously became known that Tymoshenko announced a hunger strike After to her Applied force When transferring from colony to Central Design Bureau No. 5 "Ukrzaliznytsia". Yulia Tymoshenko herself claims that she was not only taken away by force, but also beaten - a few days after the incident on the Internet appeared a photo with Tymoshenko hematomas. At the same time, jailers emphasize that the prisoner did not declare a hunger strike .

Tymoshenko, who was serving the sentence in the Kachanovsky colony to promise in abuse of powers when concluding “gas contracts” with Russia, is now accused of financial abuse of the head of the Unified Energy Systems of Ukraine Corporation.