Yushchenko's poisoning case made an unusual turn

The parliamentary investigative committee demands from the Prosecutor General Office and Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) to open a criminal case on falsification of poisoning President with dioxin, the press service of the committee reports on Tuesday. Besides, the committee demands to dismiss the head of the investigative group of the Prosecutor General Office who is in charge of investigating the poisoning of Viktor Yushchenko Halyna Klymovych.

The head of the committee Volodymyr Syvkovych is to have a meeting with the Prosecutor General Oleksandr Medvedko and acquaint him with information which was gathered by the committee.

The committee demands from Oleksandr Medvedko to reinstate chief of the department for supervision over investigation Larysa Cherednychenko in the office. “Cherednychenko was sent officially from the Prosecutor General Office into the committee. But in three days she was dismissed after she had written a report addressed to Medvedko. She informed about all the facts concerning the case on Yushchenko’s poisoning”, is reported.

According to the committee, experts have enough evidence “confirming the fact of manipulation with examinations of Yushchenko’s blood samples”. “In 2004 a spokesman for Yushchenko’s inner circle Roman Zvarych had been confirming in his interviews that he brought Yushchenko’s blood samples to the USA”, is reported.

“At the same time, the committee has documentary evidence that the presidential wife Catherine Yushchenko had been consulting with spokesmen for U.S. special services during election campaign in 2004. They assisted her”, is reported. “The committee has audio record of the talk between a citizen Marta and an official of foreign search allegedly Roman. They spoke English in October 2004”, the committee reports.

According to the report, the Odessa institute of forensic inquiries at the Justice Ministry made an official conclusion that “the voice of the so called Marta” is identical with the voice of Yushchenko’s wife”.

“The case papers are evidence of the necessity to check information that Yushchenko’s blood samples were transported to the USA to be enriched with dioxin”, Ukrainskaya Pravda cites the report as saying.

Catherine Yushchenko supposes that her name in the context of the case on Yushchenko’s poisoning is concerned only with election campaign, Kommersant-Ukraine newspaper reports. “I know that some people even have begun to point at me because of the case on poisoning – allegedly I falsified tests, worked out the plan to help him win at the elections”, she claimed in the interview earlier.

According to the President’s wife, in 2004 only a few laboratories managed to identify a poison which leaded to the poisoning of Viktor Yushchenko. “That is why in September, October and November 2004 I asked everybody whom I knew in Europe and in the United States for help to determine the cases of his disease. I had to do it secretly because I was afraid of everything and everybody”, Catherine Yushchenko explained. According to her, blood samples and other tests had been sent to USA, Germany, England and other countries not only by doctors of Viktor Yushchenko, but also by his colleagues and even MPs from Our Ukraine.

MP Roman Zvarych from Our Ukraine-People’s Self-Defense told that he had been giving evidence of the case on poisoning of Viktor Yushchenko for three times within previous week. “I really brought blood samples of Viktor Yushchenko, including hair and nails samples (to the examination in USA – editor.) Why the injured did not inform investigators about it, I do not know”, Roman Zvarych claimed.

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