Vlasenko Detained for

Questioning by the

Prosecutor General’s Office

Nov. 11, 2013 -- News that Serhiy Vlasenko, Tymoshenko’s lawyer, had been arrested proved exaggerated.  Vlasenko spent hours on Monday Nov 11th in the Prosecutor General’s Office before being allowed to leave in the evening. He has been summoned on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday for further interrogation. He told journalists that the plan had been to detain him, but that they backed down because of opposition reaction.  He now expects bail and to have to give a signed undertaking not to leave Kyiv.  Since Tymoshenko is in custody in Kharkiv, this will likely remove him from her defence team.  He believes the schedule of interrogations is aimed at preventing him from communicating with Pat Cox and Alexandr Kwaniewski.

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Yulia Tymoshenko’s lawyer Serhiy Vlasenko