Timoshenko was sentenced to seven years in prison

Posted by Amru Sobar
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Oct 12, 2011
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Timoshenko was sentenced to seven years in prison

Ukraine’s former prime minister Julia Timoshenko was guilty of abuse of power when she negotiated a new gas contract with Russia, hits a Ukrainian court fixed.

Timoshenko has inflicted on Ukraine’s national gas company, a loss equivalent to 1.1 billion, according to court headed by Judge Rodion Kirejev.

Eksstatsministeren was Tuesday convicted of abuse of power in connection with a gas contract signed between Ukraine and Russia in 2009.
– Unfavorable agreement

According to the ruling forced her Ukrainian Naftogaz to enter into an agreement with Russian Gazprom, which was very unfavorable to Ukraine.

She is now sentenced to seven years in prison.

Thousands of Timoshenko supporters demonstrated outside the court in Kiev on Tuesday, in anticipation of the sentence should fall. There was also some Timoshenko opponents among the roughly 5,000 people who had appeared outside the court, and police were on high alert.




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