the Source of several million dollars received by the former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko, became the U.S. law firm Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom. This was announced by The New York Times from reliable sources.
according to the publication, the firm paid not less than $ 11 million in order to avoid a claim by Tymoshenko. The politician claimed that the company promoted her to political persecution.
After former Ukrainian Prime Minister and her lawyer Serhiy Vlasenko asked the law firm Reid Collins & Tsai, to explore opportunities to sue Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom. Later each of them received $ 5.5 million.
Earlier in the Declaration, Tymoshenko has a record about receiving income 148,34 million (about $ 5.5 million) in compensation for losses incurred from political persecution in the period from 2011 to 2014. Itself politician refused to reveal the details of receiving this amount due legal restrictions of the United States.
Yulia Tymoshenko was in 2011 found guilty of abuse of power. The charges in her address, referred to the gas agreements with Russia in the period when she held the post of Prime Minister. Guilty politician is not recognized.
Tymoshenko was sentenced to seven years imprisonment. The punishment she had to serve in the colony, but due diseases of the spine with 2012 was in the Kharkov hospital. In February 2014 she was released from prison, and in April the Supreme court of Ukraine closed the case.
