Investigator in case against Tymoshenko says no pressure applied on him

Serhiy Horbatiuk, the investigator of a criminal case against opposition Batkivschyna Party leader and former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko, has said that no pressure is being placed on him during the investigation.

“Of course, I don’t feel under any pressure. The main thing is to observe the Criminal and Procedural Code,” he said at a press conference in Kyiv on Wednesday, and noted that “this is not an easy criminal case” as it causes political resonance among people and this is the reason why he had met with journalists.

Asked by reporters what it is like to work with Tymoshenko, Horbatiuk said that “there are no problems in cooperation.”

“I don’t know what sort of a person she is in real life, but she is non-confrontational with me,” he said.