The attractive former prime minister of Ukraine, Yulia Tymoshenko, 51, will be charged with murder in the 1996 slaying of legislator Yevhen Shcherban, his wife and an aide at an airport. She is currently serving a seven year term for corruption and is being tried for tax evasion. The corruption conviction stems from her negotiations with Russia for natural gas. Tymoshenko claims her legal problems are politically motivated; her long time enemy President Viktor Yanukovych wants to keep her out of parliamentary elections this fall. Some EU officials have taken up her cause as just. Euro officials declined to attend football matches held in Ukraine as co-host of the Euro 2012 soccer tournament. Ukraine exited the tournament yesterday after loosing to England, 1-nil. Shcherban was shot to death at an airport along with his wife and an aide in a gangland-style assasination. The chief Ukrainian prosecutior says he now has enough evidence that companies controlled by Tymoshenko wired money to pay for the killing, and he has witnesses who say she organized the murder. The former prime minister categorically denies the allegations. She will not be charged soon since she is undergoing hospital treatment for a spinal condition. Yulia undoubtably has the best hair in politics.
Update: The fraud charges were dropped against former PM Berlusconi on June 27,2012 when the Rome court determined that the statute of limitations had expired.
That "bunga-bunga" fascist, Silvio Berlusconi, who was the prime minister of Italy before the collapsing economy forced his resignation in November, is facing three years, eight months on fraud charges relating to embezzlement at his media company, Mediaset. Berlusconi has an impressive win-lost record of his own. He has been a defendant in nearly 50 cases. In February a Milan court dismissed corruption charges against Berlusconi, but in the same month the Rome prosecutor asked that the former PM be placed on trial for tax evasion. He also faces charges of underage prostitution for allegedly paying 17 year-old dancer Karima El Mahroug for sex. Berlusconi does not have good hair.
The third-highest official in the United States, Attorney General Eric Holder, was
voted in contempt of Congress by the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee. His alleged crime: withholding documents from the Committee related to a failed gun sale sting operation. Some of the guns ended up in the hands of narco-traffickers south of the border and were recovered at the scene of a border patrol agent's killing. Eric Holder's hair is turning grey, but somehow the crmes of European politicos seem much more interesting.
