Ukraine Yulia PM Tymoshenko charged with misusing funds

[dipsydoodle]

Source: BBC News

The Ukrainian opposition leader, Yulia Tymoshenko, has been charged with misusing state funds while serving as prime minister, her spokeswoman says.

Ms Tymoshenko is suspected of misspending money Ukraine received from the selling of its carbon emission rights under the Kyoto protocol.

She has denied the allegations, saying she is being targeted for standing up to President Viktor Yanukovych.

Ms Tymoshenko lost the premiership in March following a no-confidence vote.

Read more: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-12042561

[ProgressiveProfessor]

1. The Orange Revolution is over its time to criminilize those who stood up to Mother Russia

[TheLastMohican]

3. Are you serious?

She is as corrupt as they come.
Her nice governmental "business" earned her the oligarch type of wealth, and she violated a big number of ukrainian laws on budget management and was having kick-backs while the country was going deeper into the crisis. Ukraine still can't dig out of that hole that she created with her money mismanagement.
Mother Russia has nothing to do with it.

[Freddie Stubbs]

2. She also refused to ginve the location of the rebel base: