Key events to discredit the Prime Minister of Ukraine Yulia Tymoshenko as a candidate for President will unfold in the United States. This statement was made today by the head of Community Party Pavlo Lazarenko, who is now serving a sentence in the United States.

Ex-Prime Minister Lazarenko claims that litigation against him has been activated due to the presidential election in order to strike a blow for Tymoshenko through discrediting leader of Community Party. "There is no doubt that the intensification of events in the United States and Ukraine is due to the presidential elections in January 2010. And their main attack through discrediting Lazarenko is aimed at the generally accepted Ukrainian leader," - said Pavlo Lazarenko in an exclusive commentary for Liga.

Leader of Community Party reminded that the case against him based on the materials related to the activities of the corporation Unified Energy Systems of Ukraine, where Yulia Tymoshenko took part, is completely closed by a federal court of the U.S. in 2004 " for lack of crime”. In Ukraine, all cases against Yulia Tymoshenko and Unified Energy Systems of Ukraine were closed by court decisions in 2005.

"But some legal company, let me name it" Company Z ", obtained a court decision in Massachusetts (United States), allegedly allowing it to claim any assets belonging to me and began to pursue civil claims. But, as their claims were baseless, I won the court of first instance and then the Court of Appeal. Now the company has joined to a civil case in Washington (DC) and continues to derail me with new claims. Why this structure needed me, if already it has been clearly established if I do not have any funds in the territory of the United States? "Why they organize a costly procedure with negative result known in advance?" Even the most conservative estimate, lawsuits of this rather strange company's U.S. civilian courts would cost US $10 mn! "A major oligarchic source finances it", - said Pavlo Lazarenko.

He added that the main objective is to prevent the election of the current head of government as President.