Ukrainian opposition leader and former PM Yulia Timoshenko addresses the U.S. Congress.
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U.S. Probe Into Timoshenko Brings Her Under Control
Ukrainian opposition leader and former PM Yulia Timoshenko was interrogated on the case of Pavel Lazarenko, said Vasily Kiselev, first deputy chief of the Regions Party faction. By this statement, the legislator cast doubt on quite the opposite remarks of U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine William Taylor.
”We have obtained the documents confirming that, unfortunately, the U.S. ambassador didn’t tell the whole truth or he was misled. We have in hands the files proving that Ms Yu. Timoshenko had been summoned to interrogations by American Prosecutor Martha Boersch. Those documents are available,” the legislator said.
Supreme Rada’s Special Commission that investigates into Timoshenko’s activities in time of her control over Unified Energy Systems of Ukraine may soon promulgate the data of the U.S. Department of Justice on Timoshenko’s involvement in the theft of state funds.
In that undertaking, Timoshenko’s accomplice was Pavel Lazarenko, whom the U.S. court condemned to imprisonment of nine years. The U.S. investigators claimed that, in 1992 to 1998, Lazarenko and his accomplices laundered over $250 million dollars generated by criminal means.
According to Russia’s analysts, the fact that the U.S. investigators probe into Yulia Timoshenko allows Washington to pressurize and control her policy.
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