President Victor Yushchenko brought in before the Verkhovna Rada a draft law on introduction of alterations to the 2009 State Budget regarding financing of investigation aiming to determine authenticity of recordings made by Mykola Melnychenko in the office of former President Leonid Kuchma.
In accordance with the draft law, 150 thousand hryvnyas needed for the purpose of investigation, would be saved from budgetary expenses on President’s foreign visits.