[lbo-talk] Yushchenko threatens fraud trials

[Leigh Meyers]

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Secret recordings made at Mr Yanukovich's campaign headquarters during the disputed 
vote will be used as evidence in the prosecutions. The tapes allegedly capture the Prime 
Minister's team discussing the progress of their attempts to manipulate the election results.
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Sydney Morning Herald Online

Yushchenko threatens fraud trials
By Tom Parfitt in Kiev
December 27, 2004
The Telegraph, London; Agence France-Presse

http://www.smh.com.au/news/World/Yushchenko-threatens-fraud-trials/2004/12/26/1103996438780.html?oneclick=true#

Senior members of the present Ukrainian Government will be prosecuted for 
election fraud if Viktor Yushchenko, the country's opposition leader, wins 
yesterday's re-run presidential vote.

A criminal investigation into "15 or 20 key figures" could also implicate Viktor 
Yanukovich, the pro-Russian Prime Minister, officials close to Mr Yushchenko said.
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Anatoly Grytsenko, Mr Yushchenko's chief strategist, said those suspected of 
fraud in last month's vote would be prosecuted if the opposition leader wins.

"Those who must not be forgiven are mainly within the state structure - the ones who 
organised the falsification," he said. "Someone must be imprisoned because we cannot 
forgive this situation, which sent a terrible message about Ukraine to the world."

Mr Grytsenko named Mykola Bilokon, the Interior Minister; Viktor Medvedchuk, head 
of the presidential administration; and Andriy Kluyev, the Vice-Prime Minister, as among 
the ringleaders who would be prosecuted. They could face between three and 12 years 
in prison.
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