Mykola Tytarenko, a lawyer for former Ukrainian Vice Premier Hryhoriy Nemyria, has categorically denied any involvement of his client in the alleged illegal financing of the Batkivschyna Party through offshore companies and says that Nemyria is not evading questioning.

"[First Deputy Prosecutor General Renat] Kuzmin says that Hryhoriy Mykhailovych [Nemyria] is evading questioning at the Prosecutor General's Office. This allegation is untrue, because Nemyria came to the Prosecutor's General Office for questioning as soon as he received the notification in a legal way," Tytarenko said at a briefing in Kyiv on Thursday.

He said that Nemyria had not demanded that the Prosecutor General's Office stop the questioning, and was ready to answer all questions from the investigator. Therefore, the first deputy prosecutor general's allegation that the first interrogation was interrupted at Nemyria's request is also untrue, Tytarenko said.

He said that the interrogation on December 23 lasted about three-and-a-half hours and that the questions were actually asked only within 30 minutes.

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.

"Nemyria refuses to come to the prosecutor's office. He was fined by the court for failing to come to the prosecutor's office," Kuzmin added.