KYIV. February 14. UNN.
Former Prime Minister of Ukraine Yulia Tymoshenko has submitted a statement to the penitentiary service demanding that she be brought to tomorrow's court session for the interrogation of the next witness during the pre-trial investigation stage in the Yevhen Shcherban murder case. This was announced today during a briefing for journalists by her defense counsel Serhiy Vlasenko, a correspondent reports.
“Serhiy Sas has just left the Ukrzaliznytsia hospital. Yulia Volodymyrivna has submitted a statement for the second or even third time demanding to be delivered to tomorrow's court session to participate in the witness interrogation. I emphasize once again, we are hearing a case, a falsified case, in which a person is accused of murder. And to deprive a person of the opportunity (to participate in the session during witness interrogation – Ed.) simply because the authorities are afraid of even her appearance, to deprive a person of the opportunity to defend themselves – this is the greatest crime possible,” S. Vlasenko emphasized.
The defense counsel stressed that Y. Tymoshenko demands her participation in all court sessions, “even though she knows there is no justice in the court, and there is not and cannot be any rule of law.”
As a reminder, according to the representative of the state prosecution Oleh Pushkar, the Pechersk District Court will determine in which court the interrogation of a witness in the Yevhen Shcherban murder case may take place at the pre-trial investigation stage.
The state prosecutor said that the prosecution investigator had filed a motion with the Pechersk Court regarding the interrogation of a witness in the case of E. Shcherban's murder.
“I understand that this (the witness interrogation – Ed.) will most likely take place in the Court of Appeal... The next interrogation could be as early as tomorrow,” he specified.
O. Pushkar noted that as of today, there are at least several witnesses who will testify at the pre-trial investigation stage. However, he did not specify exactly how many such people will be interrogated.
“At the moment, there are at least several people, and further on in the course of the investigation, we will determine the rest. The investigation is currently underway, and we will decide how many witnesses need to be interrogated in the course of the pre-trial investigation at court sessions,” he said.
O. Pushkar emphasized that the prosecutor's office does not intend to delay the investigation into the murder of E. Shcherban.
According to him, the prosecutor's office will try to complete the pre-trial investigation as quickly as possible, as provided for by the criminal procedural legislation.