Aleksandr Turchinov

The first deputy head of the Batkivschyna Party and former First Deputy Prime Minister Aleksandr Turcinov, right, in the department of the Prosecutor General's Office, in Kiev, on Thursday, December 9, 2010. Aleksandr Turchinov was summoned to the main investigation department of the Prosecutor General's Office for questioning. The Batkivschyna Party said it considers these summonses to be "political terror". On November 29, Turchinov was summoned to the Prosecutor General's Office for questioning regarding the expenditure of funds that were received from the sale of quotas of greenhouse gas emissions by the government of former Premier Yulia Timoshenko. Turchinov was summoned to the main investigation department of the Prosecutor General's Office for questioning on Nov. 11, 2010. He told reporters that an investigator had questioned him as a witness in a case on charges brought against former Interior Minister Yuriy Lutsenko regarding the embezzlement of funds. The Security Service of Ukraine has already questioned Turchinov as a witness in the case on the customs clearance of natural gas, on Sept. 8, 20 and 22. Photo by Aleksandr Prokopenko / POOL / UNIAN