The judges of the appeal court of Kyiv took the rejection in the case of the former head of the Department of surveillance of the Ministry of interior of Ukraine Oleksiy Pukach, who was convicted for the killing of journalist Georgy Gongadze, informs on Wednesday Ukrainian.

" It is a challenge in the case of the prosecution Oleksiy Pukach took the judges of the appeal court of Kyiv. At a closed-door meeting they considered the appeal of the convicted person for a reduction of sentence, as well as the intercession of the messenger of the injured party about the full review, " informs television channel.

The victims in the case is a journalist Oleksiy Podolsky. The result proved that he, as a journalist Georgy Gongadze, Pukach was taken to the forest for punishment. The man managed to survive. Now Podolsky requires again to start a business Pukach to identify the customer's crimes. In his vision, the Judge of the Pechersk court, which recognized the illegal Pukach, together with the prosecution pressured General of police, that he was not mentioned in their testimony the names of former bureaucrats.

Podolski has sought to change the composition of the jury, considering the appeal on the case, but the Judge took the rejection.

Pechersk district court of Kyiv on January 29, 2013 found the officers guilty of forcible deprivation of life in the year 2000, a well-known Ukrainian journalist Georgy Gongadze and sentenced him to life imprisonment (the maximum measure of redemption in Ukraine).

sections: Politics