KIEV, December 15 (Itar-Tass) --The Prosecutor General’s Office has opened a criminal case against former Prime Minister Yulia Timoshenko for misusing budget funds disbursed under the Kyoto Protocol.She was questioned at the Main Investigation Department of the Prosecutor General’s Office on Wednesday, December 15. I have just found out from the investigators that a criminal case has been opened against me for allegedly having used environmental money for pensions during the crisis,” Timoshenko said. he investigators wanted to bring official changes against Timoshenko but did not do it due to the absence of her layer, the former prime minister said.
Timoshenko denied the misuse of the funds because they were kept in special accounts of the Ministry of the Environment and Natural Resources and said the present government could use them if need be.
“It would take a minute for a specialist to see that there is not a single payment order for the transfer of the environmental money. They say that the environment money was used to pay pensions. Pensions were paid but not with the environmental money,” she said.
However the Prosecutor General’s Office said the funds received by Ukraine from the sale of quotas under the Kyoto Protocol had been misused. “Timoshenko’s statement that these funds are kept in special deposit accounts is wrong,” it said.
Timoshenko said after an interrogation on December 2 that the sum in question was 320 million euros.
In October, she said the use of earnings from the sale of greenhouse gas emission quotas by her government for other purposes should not be considered a crime. She also stressed that she would have used the money for the payment of pensions if she had faced the same situation again.
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