Pavlo Lazarenko

UNIAN ARCHIVE Former Ukrainian Prime Minister Pavlo Lazarenko at a session in Ukrainian Parliament in 1998. On Tuesday, May 24, 2005, Lazarenko’s attorney Maryna Dolgopola declared that his case possibly would be closed. Almost a year has passed from the day, when a grand jury of American court brought in a verdict of Lazarenko’s guilty of extortion and abuse of power. Now 15 of 29 accusations have been exculpated for the lack of evidence by judge of the United States Martin Jenkins. Photo by Viktor Pobesinsky / UNIAN