Developing a law to release Timoshenko
The representative of the Prosecutor General's Office of Ukraine, who has alleged Yulia Timoshenko, has demanded 7 years of imprisonment and 3 years of deprivation of the right to hold state office from the court. In his turn, Naftogaz has demanded confiscating the 1.516 billion grivni that Timoshenko took from the National Company.
The Moskovsky Komsomolets writes that alongside Timoshenko's trial, the Supreme Rada has put into circulation a draft law that simplifies the amount of punishment by the law for those who have committed economic crimes.
According to that, those who have committed large economic crimes won't be sentenced to jail, but will pay the amount set by the court. The newspaper reports that Ukrainians called the draft law President Yanukovich's "way out" after learning about it.
According to the press, if people behind-the-scenes manage to convince BYUT (Yulia Timoshenko's Block-Ukr. Edl.) to pay the one and a half billion dollars to release Timoshenko from prison, they will also be able to reduce the opposition's expenses ahead of the Rada elections.
BYUT's opposing political parties will be able to weaken its positions, especially if the court rules to deprive Timoshenko of his right to hold state office for three years. Let us inform that Timoshenko's political party has no equivalent political figure or leader.
