The High Anti-Corruption Court will resume hearing the Tymoshenko case on September 29; the defense is requesting an expert analysis of the audio recording
On September 17, the High Anti-Corruption Court continued the preliminary hearing in the case of People’s Deputy Yulia Tymoshenko. The next hearing was scheduled for September 29 at 10:00 a.m. The defense insists on having the audio recording examined.
“The next hearing is on September 29 at 10:00 a.m.,” he said.
During the hearing, the defendant’s defense team requested clarification on the ruling dated September 3, 2026, regarding whether the MP and her attorneys may review certain items and documents held by the Bokarius Institute, together with relevant experts.
The court explained that the ruling referred to by Tymoshenko’s defense had denied the request to review these items and documents with the assistance of an expert.
The MP herself said that the investigation materials “contain not even a hint” that anyone received funds from her or that she received them from anyone.
Commenting on the audio recording included in the case file, Tymoshenko noted that it was made by MP Ihor Kopytin.
“Kopytin has two cases pending with the NABU. The defense’s position—and my personal position—is that Kopytin was pressured, due to his two criminal cases, to make the recordings. And our position is that Kopytin, in desperation, (made the recordings—ed.) on his cell phone or some kind of voice recorder and then, realizing that he hadn’t recorded anything (in essence—ed.), edited these recordings and handed them over to NABU,” Tymoshenko stated.
The defendant noted that, according to the Ministry of Justice’s guidelines, the National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine is required, in order to conduct an expert examination, to submit both the original device on which the recording was made and the original audio recording (to the relevant institutions—Ed.)
“We assert that they did not provide the original device or the original recording to either Bokarius or the authorities in Odesa. Our motions are aimed at proving this,” she explained.
Tymoshenko stated that she and her defense team want the audio recording—“the only evidence that exists”—to be thoroughly and rigorously examined.
“We assert that no genuine expert analyses were conducted, that they were written under pressure… The only ‘evidence’ is the audio recording. There is absolutely no other evidence. And the point is that the expert analyses of this evidence were conducted completely illegally,” Tymoshenko said.
Tymoshenko’s attorney, Oleksandr Gotin, reported this in a comment to Ukrinform.
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