Principal Version Of Yushchenko’s Poisoning Appeared Deadlocked

KIEV, Ukraine -- Former Chairman of the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU), Igor Smeshko, stated in an interview to newspaper Fakts, that investigation of the case about poisoning of the current President of Ukraine, Viktor Yushchenko, on September 5, 2004, at a summer residence of ex-Deputy Chairman of the SBU, Vladimir Satsyuk, has appeared deadlocked.

Former SBU Chairman Igor Smeshko
“From the legal point of view the Yushchenko's version during two years of investigation of the case has appeared so deadlocked that, as a matter of fact, he involuntarily has become its political hostage", Smeshko said.

In his opinion, "it is impossible to claim that there are any proofs which would connect that dinner on September 5, 2004, at Satsyuk's summer residence with the fact of deterioration of Viktor Yushchenko’s state of health in the autumn of 2004".

The former head of the SBU noted that for 1.5 hours before the meeting at Satsyuk’s place, Yushchenko had dinner at a summer residence of one of the heads of Foxtrot firm, where he was even served a separate dish, a trout.

Besides Yushchenko had problems with health till September 5, 2004 and because of them Smeshko’s meeting with Yushchenko was transferred from September 4 to September 5.

Smeshko was asked for his comments on the last version of anonymous "leadership of security services", published by the newspaper Segodnya on December 28, 2006, that Yushchenko could be poisoned eating plov (rice pilaf), served by an unnamed security guard of Satsyuk, at the same summer residence on September 5, 2004.

Smeshko referred to the statement of the acting SBU Chairman Valentin Nalivaichenko at a press conference on December 28, 2006, when he personally publicly commented the given publication.

He stated that "as far in this case there is no moral right of any department to declare that it has achieved success” and called to refuse loud versions and assumptions.

Smeshko mentioned ‘a former SBU general‘ who has spent most of his service career to the struggle against ‘bourgeois Ukrainian nationalism’.

In the beginning of 2006 he "surely reported to the country’s National Security and Defence Council and to the President that the investigation, say, already knew absolutely everything that is connected with Yushchenko's poisoning.

According to Smeshko, when the law enforcement bodies requested the fact sheet, the general’s sensational report appeared a usual bluff, though, it was rather harmoniously supporting the principal version of the President.

Source: Eurasian Secret Services