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Yushchenko Found Poisoner
Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko was interrogated Monday under the case of his poisoning in September of 2004. Supreme Rada member David Zhvania had arranged the attempted murder, the president said after the interrogation.
The attempted poisoning of Viktor Yushchenko that was staged far back in September of 2004 has been one of the highlights in Ukraine in the recent weeks. The case was set into motion nearly in four years after the actual event and the detectives of Prosecutor General Office twice interrogated Yushchenko. The president came up with sensational statements after each interrogation.
On Monday, for instance, Yushchenko declared he didn’t doubt he had been poisoned September 5, 2004 in the cottage of then Deputy Chief of Security Service Vladimir Satsyuk and that the poisoning had been arranged by David Zhvania.
On September 5, 2004, then presidential candidate Viktor Yushchenko and Supreme Rada member David Zhvania met with Security Service Chief Igor Smeshko and his deputy Vladimir Satsyuk to discuss appropriating personal guards for Yushchenko.
According to Yushchenko, he felt bad exactly after that meeting. The criminal case was initiated in July 2005 and both Satsyuk and Smeshko had moved to Russia by that time.
The poisoning case has gained momentum only this year. The reason was the conflict of David Zhvania, long mate of the president and godfather of his son Taras, and the people close to Yushchenko now. In time of today’s clashes of Yushchenko’s supporters with supporters of Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko, Zhvania is with the second camp. He often advocates parliamentary republic for Ukraine with no place for the president.
Of interest is that, in Zhvania’s interpretation, Yushchenko had been never poisoned at all. Not dioxin but the trigeminus inflammation had disfigured his face, Zhvania said.
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All the Article in Russian as of July 30, 2008
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