The court in the United States rejected Tymoshenko’s lawsuit against Firtash

The Federal Court of Manhattan (New York, USA) rejected the lawsuit of the former Prime Minister of Ukraine Yulia Tymoshenko against the Swiss company Rosukrenergo (Rue), its co-owner of the Ukrainian billionaire Dmitry Firtash, suspected of laundering money, corruption and fraud on the territory of the United States, as well as a number of other persons. The entrepreneur is currently in Austria under the subscription of a loss of departure at the FBI in the case of bribery of Indian officials, but the court has not yet agreed to his extradition.

Tymoshenko and the other two plaintiffs claimed that the funds acquired by a firma with a criminal way were given to prosecutors and supporters of Viktor Yanukovych, when he was a candidate for the post of fourth president of Ukraine. These bribes, the lawsuit said, contributed to the conclusion of Tymoshenko.

The federal judge Kimm Wood explained that the plaintiffs could not prove that the businessman was engaged in laundering in the United States and used them as bribes to Ukrainians, reports Reuters. In addition to Firtash, several more citizens of Ukraine, as well as six citizens and companies in the United States, were mentioned in Tymoshenko’s appeal.

The lawsuit was filed in April 2011. In January 2010, Naftogaz bought a Rosukrenergo debt from Gazprom in the amount of $ 1.7 billion. Subsequently, the Ukrainian state -owned company, on debt, removed 11 billion cubes belonging to Rue from underground storage facilities.

In June 2010, the Stockholm arbitration made a decision on a long international dispute Rosukrenergo and Naftogaz. The court ruled that 11 billion cubic meters of gas seized from Rue, by decision of Tymoshenko, should be returned to the Swiss company along with a "penalty" of 1.1 billion cubic meters. At the end of November, the Supreme Court of Ukraine confirmed the decision of the Stockholm Arbitration Court; In April, Naftogaz returned the trader 12.1 billion cubic meters of gas.

Tymoshenko doubted the impartiality of the Stockholm arbitration, according to her, the lawsuit said that the court decision is a "way to get huge amounts of money."

In 2011, Tymoshenko was sentenced to seven years of deprivation on charges of abuse of powers when concluding gas contracts with the Russian Federation. She refuted all the accusations, stating that she became a victim of political persecution. After the change of power in Ukraine in February last year, the ex-head of the Cabinet was released.

Firtash was detained in Vienna on the basis of a request from the US authorities and the warrant issued by the American court in March 2014. He was charged with giving bribes to Indian officials to obtain permits for the development of titanium deposits in India.

The investigation believes that the corruption scheme began to be carried out since 2006, but more than 18 million dollars were transferred to Indian officials in exchange for permission to develop a mine in the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh. The accusation requires Firtash to abandon his share in Group DF Limited and its assets, including 159 companies in a number of countries and 41 bank accounts. In addition, $ 10.59 million, which were allegedly transferred to bribes, from Firtash and other accused, are required to reimburse.