Former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko plans to appeal to the Office of
the Prosecutor General of Ukraine (PGO) demanding that an investigation
into the misuse of public funds in connection with the unjustified
increase in financing for the construction of the Olympic National
Stadium Complex in Kyiv.
"I will bring to the next interrogation an appeal regarding yet
another crime that is currently being committed in Ukraine, namely the
doubling of the cost estimate for building the Olympic National Stadium
Complex in Kyiv in preparation for Euro-2012," Yulia Tymoshenko told
reporters after her latest interrogation at the PGO, Tymoshenko's official website reports.
The former prime minister recalled that estimates for the cost of
constructing the facility were considerably less while she was in
office. "Our government was building the Olympic Stadium for 2.144
billion hryvnias. This government has upped the cost to 4.5 billion
hryvnias. I’d like to ask what they’re doing with these extra 2 billion
hryvnias because everyone knows they don’t need this much."
Yulia Tymoshenko didn’t rule out that public funds are being
laundered to private offshore accounts belonging to Yanukovych and his
associates. "These are expenses that are being laundered through Cyprus
into the private offshore accounts of senior officials. And this is all
being done right before our eyes," she stressed.
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