The murder of a prominent Ukrainian journalist Olesya Elder made the Ukrainian intelligence service, and not the activists of the nationalist organization Andrew Medvedko and Denis Polishchuk, Andrei said Fedun, lawyer Medvedko and Polishchuk, relative to which a criminal case under the criminal code.
"I think the Elderberry Murder committed by employees of special services. It is clear that our Ukrainian, " he said. According to Fedun, the police had falsified the results of forensic medical examination proving the involvement of His clients to the deprivation of life." The preparations necessary for such examination is not certified in Ukraine, and this means they are not at the disposal of the Ministry of internal Affairs ", - said the lawyer. In addition, said Fedun, a witness to the murder described the shooter, but he wasn't like any one of His clients, reports the news Agency.
because of this, said the lawyer, protection Medvedko and Polishchuk went to court with the petition to change the measure of restraint. However, the court refused to consider this petition. The detention of the first suspects in the murder of a famous Ukrainian journalist Olesya Elder June 18, said the Prosecutor's office of Kiev. They were two residents of Kiev: Andrew Medvedko and Denis Polishchuk. Arrested charged with committing iniquity under part 2 of article 115 of the criminal code of Ukraine (premeditated Murder). It claimed that things thrown near the car of the killers of an Elder in Kiev, there are traces of genetic material suspected of Denis Polishchuk and Andrew Medvedko. On the same day, the Shevchenkovsky district court of Kiev chose Denis Polishchuk a measure of restraint in the form of detention for a period of two months. Also, the court defined an alternative measure of restraint in the form of a pledge of 5 million hryvnia (about 238 thousand Dollars). Thereupon the court sanctioned the detention until 14 August, the second defendant in the case of Andrew Medvedko. The Ministry of internal Affairs of Ukraine released one of the three arrested on suspicion of belonging to the deprivation of life of a journalist Olesya Elderberry. His name was not called. Remember, April 16, in the Shevchenko district of Kiev, near the entrance of his house was killed by a former chief editor of the Ukrainian newspaper " Today ", journalist Oles Buzina. The elder did not support anti-Russian position of the Kiev authorities, what was the reason to suspect that the hunt for him was done for political reasons. At the funeral of a famous public figure in the parting words were the words that the Elder was a true patriot of Ukraine, always wrote the truth and was forcibly deprived of his life for his beliefs, as was wicked in the current Ukrainian authorities.

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