Ukraine's Supreme Court has closed the "gas case" against the ex-premier of Ukraine, Yulia Tymoshenko, according to which she had been sentenced to seven years in prison. The case was closed due to the absence of a crime, Timoshenko's lawyer Oleksandr Plakhotnyuk said.In 2011 Tymoshenko was sentenced to seven years in prison on charges of abuse of office in signing gas contracts with Russia in 2009. Since May 2012 she had been treated at a hospital in Kharkov.Tymoshenko is now running forthe presidency in elections scheduled for May 25.Ukraine's Supreme Court has closed the "gas case" against the ex-premier of Ukraine, Yulia Tymoshenko, according to which she had been sentenced to seven years in prison. The case was closed due to the absence of a crime, Timoshenko's lawyer Oleksandr Plakhotnyuk said.
In 2011 Tymoshenko was sentenced to seven years in prison on charges of abuse of office in signing gas contracts with Russia in 2009. Since May 2012 she had been treated at a hospital in Kharkov.
Tymoshenko is now running forthe presidency in elections scheduled for May 25.
