A Ukrainian court on Monday postponed the hearing of jailed former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko over embezzlement charges for over one month.

"The hearings will resume on June 25," judge Kostyantin Sadovsky said.

Prosecutors earlier asked the court to defer the hearing because Tymoshenko could not attend the trial due to the poor health.

Tymoshenko, who is obtaining medical treatment at an out-of-prison health center in Kharkov city in eastern Ukraine, was sentenced in October 2011 for abuse of power in a 2009 gas deal with Russia.

In April 2012, she was accused of embezzling an estimated 405 million U.S. dollars and evading tax worth more than 87,000 dollars in the 1990s.

Tymoshenko has denied all charges in both cases, calling the allegations politically motivated.

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