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New York court dismissed the civil suit Tymoshenko to the company RUE, her co-owner Dmitry Firtash, and a number of other people suspected of corruption, fraud and human rights violations. It is reported by Reuters.
Tymoshenko and the other two of the plaintiff in that case argued that Firtash is engaged in money laundering in the United States, and criminally acquired funds gave Ukrainian prosecutors and supporters of Viktor Yanukovych, which contributed to the conclusion of Tymoshenko.
A federal judge Kimba Wood said that Tymoshenko has not managed to prove that Firtash zanimalcya money laundering in the United States for use as bribes in Ukraine.
Tymoshenko has filed a lawsuit in the US District Court for the Southern District of New York NY against the company RUE and Firtash in April 2011. The lawsuit was filed on behalf of itself Tymoshenko, several Ukrainian opposition, who were either under investigation or in custody, as well as on behalf of the Ukrainian people, whose interests, according to the defense of Tymoshenko, have been infringed. The number of defendants in the case were ten Ukrainian citizens and six citizens and companies in the US.
As the newspaper “Kommersant”, the former prime minister demanded to recognize the fact of collusion between the trader and “Naftogaz” in the course of proceedings in the Stockholm arbitration in RUE result of which were returned to 12.1 billion cubic meters of gas. The plaintiffs claimed that RUE has invested “substantial sums received from transactions gas”, in the company of the United States and Europe, including through the “labyrinth of front companies, including defendants BAH, CMZ, Dynamic and Vulcan».
The lawsuit said that Tymoshenko and other former officials “were subjected to political persecution and arbitrary detention of action [of the writing of the claim] Ukrainian government headed by President Viktor Yanukovych».
The complaint alleged that these actions were organized by officials officials from the Yanukovych administration, and inspiration they had “trusted person Yanukovych” Dmitry Firtash.
Dmitry Firtash – the owner of the international holding company Group of Dmitry Firtash (Group DF), which includes assets in the field of Chemical, Energy and real estate, one of the owners of RosUkrEnergo. Ukrainian Forbes estimates his fortune at $ 270 million.
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