The court in the Yulia Tymoshenko case will continue the preliminary hearing in September
On September 1 at 10:00 a.m., the High Anti-Corruption Court will resume the preliminary hearing in the case of People’s Deputy Yulia Tymoshenko. Her attorneys have already filed several motions, which the court is scheduled to consider during the next hearing.
Her attorney, Oleksandr Gotin, reported this in a comment to Ukrinform.
“The next hearing is scheduled for September 1 at 10:00 a.m.,” he said.
Gotin recalled that at the previous hearing, Tymoshenko’s defense team filed a motion with the court requesting that the prosecution produce the original audio recording from the covert investigative (surveillance) operations conducted on January 12, 2026.
In addition, the MP’s defense team filed a motion requesting access to the original technical device on which the recording may have been made.
The lawyer explained that, in accordance with the methodologies approved in Ukraine, in order to establish whether a particular recording is authentic, court experts need both the original recording and the device on which the audio file was recorded to conduct their analyses.
“Without these, they (the experts—ed.) cannot determine whether this is an original recording or if it has been forged, edited, or falsified. Therefore, we are requesting that they provide us with the original recording and the equipment so that we can submit it for examination and verify the authenticity of the recording and its contents,” he said.
In addition, Tymoshenko’s attorneys filed a motion with the court seeking to compel the National Anti-Corruption Bureau to produce certain documents.
“For example, it has been widely reported that the basis for opening the criminal case was a NABU memorandum stating that Yulia Volodymyrivna, together with other members of parliament as part of an organized group, orchestrated the extortion of bribes—systematic bribes. But in order to draft such a document and send it to the Prosecutor General, there must be some documents showing that this was investigated somewhere, that someone said or did something,” Gotin explained.
The lawyer stated that Tymoshenko’s defense team had approached a NABU detective with a request to question the members of parliament with whom the lawmaker allegedly organized this scheme.
“You wrote that Yulia Volodymyrivna, together with these members of parliament, organized a criminal group. Go ahead and question them, because they don’t even know each other. How can a group be organized if the people don’t know each other at all? In response to our motion, the NABU detective writes that he will grant it and question these members of parliament to determine whether they know anything at all about these events. But then, after granting this motion, he refuses to question them. And he closes the case,” the defense attorney stated.
He reported that Tymoshenko’s attorneys themselves, within the framework of the Law “On the Bar and the Practice of Law,” interviewed these members of parliament.
Gotin noted that these members of parliament claim they have never even spoken with her; they know there is such a member of parliament, but they are not even acquainted with her.
“One of these deputies even said this: ‘I actually had a conflict with her because… she criticized me. When I was speaking from the podium in parliament, she said unpleasant things to me. Then I had another conflict with her, and generally speaking, we’re on bad terms.” But NABU stated that they are all part of the same group. That is why we filed another motion yesterday—to request that NABU provide the documents on which they based these conclusions,” the lawyer said.
According to him, the court has not yet considered all these issues.
Source: Ukrinform
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