Pechersky District Court of Kyiv has ruled that the former presidential representative for international energy security, Bohdan Sokolovsky, should be forced to attend court to testify in the criminal case on gas contracts with Russia against former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko.
According to the court ruling, Sokolovsky will be brought to Pechersky District Court by 0930, on Wednesday, August 17.
As reported, Judge Rodion Kireyev, who is presiding over the trial, suggested that Sokolovsky should be forced to come to court, since he had been was repeatedly summoned for questioning but failed to come. On August 10, the former presidential envoy on international energy security, Bohdan Sokolovsky, asked Pechersky District Court not to question him as a witness in gas case until September 1, since he could not appear in court for health reasons.
Tymoshenko and her lawyers opposed the forced attendance of Sokolovsky in court, while the prosecution didn't object to it.
