Parliamentary Deputy David Zhvania of the Our Ukraine-People's Self-Defense bloc (OU-PSD) believes that the criminal case that was filed over the poisoning of President Viktor Yuschenko when he was a presidential candidate has "no judicial prospects."
Zhvania was speaking to journalists near the investigation department of the Prosecutor-General's Office.
"As a former close associate and comrade, I even advised through the media that this case should be closed because it has no judicial prospects. It will once again seriously shame the country and everything that is taking place now," Zhvania said.
He added that he considered Yuschenko's visit to the Prosecutor-General's Office to give evidence as a demonstrative show.
"The president's visit [to the Prosecutor-General's Office] yesterday was a show," Zhvania said.
Zhvania said that he did not intend to take up Russian citizenship and that he was confident that the case about the poisoning of Yuschenko was fabricated.
As Ukrainian News earlier reported, Oleksii Donskyi, an investigator with the Prosecutor-General's Office, believes that Zhvania disrupted the investigation either because he was afraid or he was involved in the poisoning of Yuschenko.
Zhvania refused to be questioned at the main investigation department of the Prosecutor-General's Office on Wednesday.
According to Zhvania, it was the latest act of mockery and he did not intend to hear it.
Zhvania said on Radio Liberty on may 30 that Yuschenko was not poisoned.
The Prosecutor-General's Office has said that there is no doubt that Yuschenko was poisoned in 2004.
