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Tymoshenko transferred to clinic

Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko attends an international meeting on the European gas crisis in Moscow on January 17, 2009. The conference at the Kremlin failed to bring an agreement to restore supplies of Russian natural gas via Ukraine. (UPI Photo/Anatoli Zhdanov)

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Published: April 21, 2012 at 8:03 PM

KHARKOV, Ukraine, April 21 (UPI) -- Ukrainian prison officials say former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko is being treated for back problems in a Kharkov clinic.

The state penitentiary service said Friday a team of German doctors examined Tymoshenko earlier in April and confirmed she is too unwell to go to court. Tymoshenko is serving a seven-year sentence for signing a gas deal with Russia in 2009 without authority to do so and faces new charges of trying to embezzle $405 million from United Energy Systems when she headed the state corporation in the 1990s.

The service released a statement saying she had been transferred from prison to the Ukrzaliznytsi Clinic for treatment recommended by the German and Ukrainian doctors who have examined her.

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