KIEV, Oct 11: Ukraine today jailed former prime minister Yulia Tymoshenko for seven years over a 2009 gas deal, sparking accusations of totalitarianism and threatening its ambition of joining the European Union.
Amid emotional scenes in the packed court in central Kiev, judge Rodion Kireyev said the 10-year contract for gas imports from Russia signed in 2009 had sustained heavy losses for Ukraine and was criminally motivated.
“The court rules that Y.V. Tymoshenko intentionally used her powers to criminal ends,” Kireyev said in his judgement. “The court finds her guilty and sentences her to seven years in prison.”
From: http://ping.fm/zudcr
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