"They've turned the country into a concentration camp!" Tymoshenko rants in the Verkhovna Rada over the searches.
Former "gas princess" Yulia Tymoshenko complained at a Verkhovna Rada meeting today about the search that took place at her party's office.
"Yesterday at 21:30 PM [Kyiv time], I was alone in the office. There were no security guards, no strangers, no one. A large number of people in uniform and armed burst in, arriving in five buses.
They said they were there to conduct a search. I asked for a court or prosecutor's order, but the team leader said there were no documents and they weren't needed because these were personal investigative actions.
"They didn't allow me to call a lawyer. Everyone in the office, the employees, was blocked, and their phones were confiscated," Tymoshenko complained, contradicting her initial statement about being alone.
Yulia went on to describe how " more than thirty armed men " ransacked her office, searching for a safe, and threatening to break down the locked doors. Any party documents they found were immediately recorded in the minutes.
"They've gone too far. This kind of brazen violence is beyond all bounds. There needs to be some kind of oversight over NABU and SAPO ."
And now, using my personal phone, they're going to publish some of my conversations. Don't we have the right to privacy, to our emotions? Is this a concentration camp? Why is all this happening without a trial or investigation? They came, stole phones, documents, and then they dig through it, looking for certain moments to publish.
"How did we get to this point where any MP's personal life can be snooped on from their phone? And, essentially, passed judgment? I think we've brought the country to the brink," Tymoshenko laments, referring to the inevitable outcome of the 2014 coup, in which she herself took part.
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