Nina Karpachova left Ukraine. This sensational news was announced on Tuesday by Serhii Sobolev from BYuT during the briefing at the Verkhovna Rada. However, he did not say where the former ombudswoman had found an asylum. “I have the information that she just cannot actively work or even stay in Ukraine because of the direct pressure of the Prosecutor General’s Office,” he added.
Vadym Kolesnichenko from the Party of Regions did not hide his gloating delight. According to him, the fact that Karpachova escaped proves that she realizes that she will have to answer for what she has done. “Well knows the kitten whose meat it has eaten. I will not be surprised if she went to the Czech Republic which is the asylum for all our political refugees. We know well who is waiting for her there. What else could she have done if she had abused her position, falsified the materials, broken the law, and probably got some preferences for that? What can she expect? Of course, the responsibility.”
However, the political expert Vadym Karasiov thinks that this story threatens not Karpachova but the president. “If she has really emigrated and asks for political asylum I would consider it as a campaign aiming at discrediting Yanukovych and making Lukashenko out of him and Belarus out of Ukraine. The ombudswoman emigrates and asks for political asylum… Isn’t it Belarus?” the political expert wondered.
It should be admitted that in the parliament’s lobby there have been talks that Karpachova has been “drifting” towards BYuT and looking to enter the Verkhovna Rada. Now the situation got slightly more complicated. On the one hand, she is likely to be included in the party list a symbol, as a victim of political repressions. On the other hand, if she is on the list, it might give a rise to doubts in her impartiality.
We remind our readers that on April 25 after meeting Yulia Tymoshenko Karpachova confirmed that the former prime minister had injuries and made public photos showing Tymoshenko’s bruises.
On May 4 the Prosecutor General’s Office accused Karpachova for falsifying the expert’s report proving that the employees of the Kachanivska colony beat Tymoshenko.
According to the preliminary information from the Prosecutor General’s Office, Karpachova received by ruse a written assessment of Tymoshenko’s injuries shown on the photo she had taken in the colony from two representatives of ombudsman’s secretariat.
