13:22 19.12.2012

PGO waiting for doctors' permission to question Tymoshenko on Scherban murder case

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Prosecutors currently cannot meet with former Ukrainian Premier Yulia Tymoshenko to bring charges against her in the criminal case on the murder of MP Yevhen Scherban due to the ex-premier's disease, First Deputy Prosecutor General of Ukraine Renat Kuzmin has said.

"The prosecutor's office has enough evidence to bring charges against the ex-premier… Unfortunately, today the prosecutor's office representatives cannot meet with the ex-premier due to her disease. Today there are several medical conclusions that do not recommend investigators of the prosecutor's office to meet with Tymoshenko, as this may influence the state of her health," Kuzmin said on Wednesday at a hotline conference organized by the Komsomolskaya Pravda v Ukraine newspaper.

He stressed that the investigators are waiting for permission of doctors to question the ex-premier, following which the investigation will continue.

Scherban, a member of the Liberal Party's executive committee and a parliamentarian, was gunned down while disembarking a plane at the Donetsk airport on November 3, 1996. The killers fled the scene in a car. Scherban, his wife and a mechanic died from injuries on the spot. The plane's flight engineer injured to his neck died later in a hospital. Law enforcement agencies ruled out political motives behind the crime.

The Luhansk Regional Court of Appeals found Vadym Bolotskykh guilty of killing Scherban and sentenced him to life in prison in April 2003.

Yevhen Scherban's son, Ruslan Scherban, a member of the Donetsk Regional Council, said at a press conference on April 4, 2012 that he had passed documents indicating to Tymoshenko's and Lazarenko's possible involvement in his father's murder to the Prosecutor General's Office.

Tymoshenko and Lazarenko have categorically denied being involved in the murder.

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