Pogrebinsky: group investigation of the Gongadze murder - PR GPU
The development group on the investigation of the murder of journalist Georgy Gongadze is a PR stunt of the Prosecutor General of Ukraine and to nothing lead, said Tuesday Last news Director of the Kyiv center for political studies and conflictology Mikhail Pogrebinsky.
Prosecutor General Viktor Shokin created a group on inquiry this perfect in 2000 loud iniquity, belonging to which was suspected the ex-President of Ukraine Leonid Kuchma.
reviews Pogrebinsky, the development of group inquiry is " more PR than the case on the merits."" This is a response to the activity of the people of Maidan. I don't believe that there are lines that they are ready to work. The main line is connected with the USA, but today everyone understands that no one find fault in US not going, " said the analyst.
He also said that in this step, the General Prosecutor's office gives the signals to the Ukrainian oligarchal that your positions are, and we can give you problems."
According to Pogrebinsky, this trial will also affect the ex-President Kuchma, who is Now the representative of Kiev on the negotiations of the contact group on the resolution of conflict situations in the Donbas." I think It will re-strain the Kuchma, but It does not threaten its status, " added the expert.
The decapitated body of Gongadze was found in November 2000 in the forest in the Kiev region. Soon afterwards were made public record, as if made by former major of the state guard Mykola Melnychenko in the office of the then President of Ukraine Leonid Kuchma. To record a voice similar to the voice Kuchma orders to "deal" with the journalist.
Ukrainian intelligence agencies arrested the General of the interior Ministry, Oleksiy Pukach in 2009 after several years of investigation. In the process of investigation, the former head of foreign intelligence service of the Ministry of interior admitted that his own strangled journalist on the orders of the then head of the Ministry of internal Affairs Yuriy Kravchenko.
Pechersk district court of Kyiv on January 29, 2013 found the officers guilty and sentenced him to life imprisonment (the maximum measure of redemption in Ukraine). Currently in the appeal court of Kyiv there is consideration of a complaint, its protection to the verdict.
during the trial Pukach said that customers of the Gongadze murder of former President Kuchma and former Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada Volodymyr Lytvyn. Kuchma and Lytvyn reject its inclusion in the deprivation of life.