Blue &Yellow: Politics and Economics in Ukraine

Didenko's lawyer Ihor Stepanov told reporters that the defense was planning to appeal against the ruling.

"We will challenge [this] illegal ruling in a court of appeals," he said, adding that the fact that Kyiv Pechersky District Court on Monday took no decision on a petition by MPs to release Didenko on bail gives grounds to cancel the court's ruling.

That's Ihor Didenko, ex-deputy head of Naftogaz whose been arrested for "two months".  RusUkroEnergo, according to Stockhold Arbitration Tribunal, is owed money and gas by Naftogaz. The SBU has turned its attention to former officials from the Tymoshenko regime to find someone to blame. Dzerkalo Tizhden has a good analysis on the SBU investigation. In short (as explained in DT) Naftogaz seized 11 billion cubic meter of gas from RusUkroEnergo, which Tymoshenko claims was legally acquired. The people arrested acted as agents of the Ukrainian state, according to her. However the SBU claims that the gas was stolen and  the agency is pursuing officials involved in acquiring the gas. As the DT article notes, the Ukrainian state is not liable for Naftogaz action nor does the state have to comply with the ruling. Nevertheless,with alacrity SBU has opened an investigation and arrested lower level officials from the Tymoshenko government.