Russia's Gazprom CEO Alexei Miller said he believes the decision made by the Ukrainian Supreme Court, which acquitted Yulia Tymoshenko, confirms the indisputability of the Russian-Ukrainian gas contract for 2009-2019.
“The Ukrainian Supreme Court is the highest court in Ukraine. The
contract, which was signed in 2009, is indisputable in this case,”
Miller told reporters in Vienna.
“This confirms once again that Ukraine fulfilled all conditions of
the contract and paid for gas supplies under this contract for five
years and there have been no serious problems until recently,” he said.
It was reported earlier on June 24 that defense lawyers for Ukraine’s
former prime minister Yulia Tymoshenko, who now leads the party
Batkivschyna, have received a complete text of the Ukrainian Supreme
Court decision acquitting her in the so-called gas supply case.
According to earlier reports, the Ukrainian Supreme Court on April 14
closed the gas supply case against Tymoshenko due to a lack of evidence
of a crime.
Tymoshenko was arrested during her trial on August 5, 2011. Kyiv’s
Pechersky District Court found her guilty of abuse of office while
negotiating a gas supply contract with Russia in 2009, and sentenced her
to 7 years in prison on Oct. 11, 2011. The court also banned
Tymoshenko from occupying government positions for three years and
obliged her to pay Hr 1.5 billion to the state in compensation for her
wrongdoings.
The Ukrainian parliament freed Tymoshenko on Feb. 22, 2014.
