Tymoshenko about NABU tapes: There was never such a conversation at all

The leader of “Batkivshchyna” Yulia Tymoshenko. Photo from Facebook

The leader of “Batkivshchyna” Yulia Tymoshenko, who is to be given a preventive measure on January 16 in the case of bribe offers, said that the tapes released by NABU were falsified, because such a conversation “never happened in her life.”

Source: a politician before a meeting of the High Anti-Corruption Court

Tymoshenko’s direct speech: “First of all, I want to say very clearly that I never said such words. Today I will give evidence in court that this audio track is completely fake.”

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Details: When asked by journalists whether she offered money to deputies, the leader of “Batkivshchyna” repeated: “I have never had such a conversation in my life. Never in my life.”

In response to the comment that the video contains a phrase about “destroying the majority,” Tymoshenko said that there was no such thing.

“I’m telling you that this conversation does not exist. And I hope that today we will be given these materials – the original – for examination. And we will conduct an independent examination that will give all the answers to all the questions. This is an absolutely commissioned political action,” the politician said.

She also added that there can be no preventive measure for her.

“There is no such thing as a crime, and there can be no preventive measures. Because all you see is an act of political absurdity,” concluded Tymoshenko.

Prehistory:

• On the evening of January 13, NABU and SAP announced that they had exposed the head of one of the factions in the Verkhovna Rada for corruption, while sources in the UP reported that they were talking about Yulia Tymoshenko.
• Anti-corruption authorities said that the head of one of the parliamentary factions was exposed for offering illegal benefits to a number of people’s deputies who belong to factions not headed by this person, for voting “for” or “against” specific draft laws. Preliminary qualification of the case: Part 4 of Art. 369 (offer, promise or provision of an unlawful benefit to an official) of the Criminal Code of Ukraine.
• On the morning of January 14, UP’s interlocutors in political circles reported that anti-corruption authorities had announced suspicion against Yulia Tymoshenko, the head of the “Batkivshchyna” faction. Later, Tymoshenko confirmed that the party’s office had been searched, but said that she rejected all the accusations. Later, she stated that the searches in her office began at 9:30 p.m. on January 13, when she was in the premises alone, that anti-corruption agents arrived on 5 buses, without a court order, did not allow her to summon a lawyer, and also searched the office of People’s Deputy of the Police Serhiy Vlasenko, which was closed.
• NABU and SAP officially announced the announcement of the suspicion of the leader of one of the parliamentary factions of the Verkhovna Rada in the proposal to grant illegal benefits to people’s deputies on a permanent basis.
• In the recordings made public by the National Anti-corruption Bureau, Yulia Tymoshenko, the leader of the “Fatherland” faction, is allegedly discussing the payment system for specific votes in the Verkhovna Rada with an unknown deputy.

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