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	Police Intend to Launch a Criminal Case in Connection with Extortion of $2 Million by Some Representetives of Byt Kyiv Post October 22, 2009 http://www.kyivpost.com/nation/51134 The police intend to launch a criminal case soon in connection with extortion of USD 2 million from a parliamentary deputy representing the Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc. Interior Affairs Minister Yurii Lutsenko announced this to journalists. "There can be only one response: the result of the criminal case that will be launched soon, and those guilty of blackmail with the aim of extorting money will be brought to criminal justice," Lutsenko said. According to him, interrogations will also be conducted. As Ukrainian News earlier reported, police have announced that lawyers representing the adoptive mother of the children that allegedly faced sexual abuse at the Artek international children's center (Crimea) have attempted to extort USD 2 million from a parliamentary deputy representing the Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc. Prosecutor-General Oleksandr Medvedko has predicted that the pretrial investigation of the allegation of sexual abuse of children at Artek will be completed by January 2010. The Prosecutor-General's Office questioned parliamentary deputies Serhii Teriokhin and Viktor Ukolov of the Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc faction on October 19 as witnesses in the in the case involving the alleged sexual abuse of children at Artek. The press service of the Party of the Regions circulated on October 13 a statement in which Parliamentary Deputy Vadym Kolesnichenko of the Party of the Regions said that the mother of the two children that were allegedly raped by senior officials at Artek had contacted him. Internet-based publications later published a copy of an appeal made to President Viktor Yushchenko (allegedly drafted by Parliamentary Deputy Hryhorii Omelchenko of the Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc) by parliamentary deputies, in which they claimed that Artek's Director-General Borys Novozhylov, the center's chief doctor Henrikh Ratt, priest Vadym Paevskyi, and Parliamentary Deputy Viktor Ukolov of the Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc were involved in perversion of children at the Artek international children's center.According to media reports that emerged later, parliamentary deputies Serhii Teriokhin and Ruslan Bohdan (both members of the Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc) are also involved in the case. All these parliamentary deputies and Novozhylov have denied involvement in the case.
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