KIEV, Jan. 8 - Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko intends to hold a comprehensive audit of the financial activities of the coal industry over the past five years as a response to "extremely bad" signs of financial abuses in the coal industry.

"I am intending to check every kopeck that was circulating in the coal industry over the past five years at least," Tymoshenko said in Kiev on Tuesday at a meeting concerning the reasons for the explosions at Zasyadko coal mine in Donetsk.