KYIV, Oct. 2 - Yulia Tymoshenko, the leader of the Batkivschyna Party, said that if the Ukrainian authorities conduct a shadow privatization of the Ukrainian gas transportation system (GTS), the new Ukrainian president will return it to the state after elections.

"The new president of Ukraine will return the GTS to the state, as was the case with Kryvorizhstal. I want to warn everyone who invests money or will take part in this large-scale corruption. Nobody will return to anybody the money that will be taken from offshore companies for the shadow privatization of the system," the party's press service quoted her as saying in her speech from the parliamentary rostrum on Tuesday.