15:31 22.01.2013

Nemyria to go in for questioning in case on checks on Batkivschyna funding through offshore companies

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Batkivschyna MP Hryhoriy Nemyria will again go in for questioning at the investigation department of the Prosecutor General's Office on Tuesday.

"Today I again have to come in for questioning to the Prosecutor General's Office," he said at a press conference in Kyiv on Tuesday.

He said that the leadership of the Verkhovna Rada had received a letter signed by the head of the main department for investigating particularly important cases of the Prosecutor General's Office, which was accompanied by a respective summons for questioning. Nemyria said that such a letter to the leadership of the parliament had been submitted more than once.

When asked why he was had been called in for questioning, he quoted the letter: "The main department for investigating particularly important cases at the Prosecutor General's Office has a criminal case, which was included in the single register of pre-trial investigations on November 21, 2012 regarding criminal offenses committed under Part 3, Article 28, Part 2, Article 205, Part 3, Article 209, Part 2, Article 358, Part 5, Article 27, Part 3, Article 213 and Part 3, Article 159 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine."

Nemyria also said that on January 28-29, he would visit Brussels to meet with representatives of the European Commission and the European Parliament as chairman of the Verkhovna Rada Committee on European Integration.

At the same time, in an earlier speech, while talking about the fact that he was being prosecuted and that he was going in for questioning to the Prosecutor General's Office, Nemyria said that as part of this case his "passport was illegally confiscated."

As reported, in 2012, the Ukrainian Human Rights Alliance filed a lawsuit against Nemyria wishing to find out with which British PR companies he cooperated when he served as deputy prime minister. Podilsky District Court in Kyiv, according to media reports, accepted the suit for consideration.

In addition, some media outlets refer to the Web site nemyrialeaks.com, which posted alleged copies of documents with information about the accounts, to which, according to the authors of this Web site, Nemyria paid for PR services to British company Ridge Consulting for several years.

Nemyria's lawyer, Mykola Tytarenko, earlier told Interfax-Ukraine that Podilsky District Court in Kyiv obliged Nemyria to provide information to the Ukrainian Human Rights Alliance about reports that were published on the Web site nemyrialeaks.com, thus satisfying the relevant claim by the alliance.

"The court ruled unlawful the inactivity of Nemyria in terms of refusing to comment on reports that were published on the Web site nemyrialeaks.com," Tytarenko said.

Batkivschyna said that on December 14 an appeal was filed against the court's ruling.

On December 19, Renat Kuzmin said that the Prosecutor General's Office is probing the alleged financing of the Batkivschyna Party through offshore companies in 2007-2010, and summoned Hryhoriy Nemyria for questioning.

According to Kuzmin, Nemyria and a number of Batkivschyna members did not come to the prosecutor's office.

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