Ukraine accuses Timoshenko of $121,000 of damages to country
15:15, 25 December 2010
KIEV. December 25. KAZINFORM The Ukrainian Prosecutor General's Office charged the former prime minister Yulia Timoshenko with 121,000 dollars of damages to the country. These funds were transferred as the currency conversion fee for the allocations to Ukraine under the Kyoto Protocol, Timoshenko told reporters after an interrogation at the country' s Prosecutor General's Office on Friday. Kazinform refers to Itar-Tass.
"The only additional accusation that they brought against me is 960,000 hrivnas (about 121,000 dollars) of losses to the state. This is the currency conversion fee the government paid," the opposition politician said.
"I passed another interrogation today with the investigator and an expertise that was initiated by the Prosecutor General's Office, which is seeking to 'prove' that the funds transferred for pensions is a crime and the funds transferred to the national bank as the currency conversion fee are state losses," Timoshenko elaborated. "I believe that these actions are obviously absurd," she added. Kazinform cites Itar-Tass. See www.itar-tass.com