Last Friday Sviatoslav Piskun, Prosecutor-General of Ukraine, said that his office knows whose voices are recorded on tapes that allegedly feature two agents of Russia’s Federal Security Service talking about Viktor Yushchenko’s poisoning. “Under the current law, we have taken all the necessary samples and measurements. We know who the voices on the tape belong to, and we are investigating these people,” Mr. Piskun said. The prosecutor-general stressed that no theory can be ruled out in the investigation of the poisoning of Ukraine’s President Viktor Yushchenko, Interfax-Ukraine reports.
Mr. Piskun also said that prosecutors have identified the structure and likely origin of the toxin that poisoned Mr. Yushchenko. “We are 100 percent sure it was a poisoning. We have identified the chemical structure of this poison and possibly even its origin: we now have all the relevant documents that confirm that this poison could have come from the laboratories of several countries,” Mr. Piskun said. He also announced that the investigation of Mr. Yushchenko’s poisoning case would include an international forensic toxicological examination involving experts from Ukraine, Switzerland, Germany, and Austria. Mr. Piskun specified that about ten countries have laboratories capable of producing the toxin that was used to poison Mr. Yushchenko. According to the Prosecutor-General of Ukraine, after the clinical picture of this poison has been studied, it will be possible to track down the laboratory of origin. “Once we know, we will hold an international toxicological examination that will not only confirm the very fact of poisoning, but will also help to make a final determination of how this poison acts,” Mr. Piskun said. “The crucial point is to know where it came from,” he emphasized. At the same time, he pointed out that “the examination is not the main thing; the main thing is to find the criminal who tried to kill the president.” “We are doing everything with this goal in mind,” the prosecutor-general assured the news agency.
