The Kyiv court of appeals announced until June 23, break in judicial session on consideration of the complaint to a sentence to the former head of exploration and observation of the Ministry of internal Affairs of Ukraine Alexey Pukach, who was sentenced to life in prison for taking the life of journalist Georgy Gongadze, reports Ukrainian news Agency

the proper resolution was read by the presiding judicial Board Stepan Gladio on the last working day of the week." in a judicial meeting is in recess until 12. 30 (coincides with MSK - ed.) on June 23, according to the ruling.

Also, the court before announcing the break was annexed to the complaint, the response from the General Prosecutor's office about the fact that she leads the proceedings on the establishment of customers of murder of Gongadze.

The Pechersky district court of Kiev on January 29, 2013 recognized Pukach guilty in the death of Gongadze and sentenced him to life imprisonment. In addition to the life sentence, the court ordered Pukach 62, 5 thousand dollars in favor of the family devoid of the life of a journalist.

The appeal on the case filed by the lawyer of the widow of the journalist Miroslava Gongadze Valentina Telichenko and Pukach's lawyer Gregory Demidenko and another Injured in fact - journalist Oleksiy Podolsky.

The investigation proved that Podolsky, as well as the journalist Gongadze, Pukach was taken to the forest for punishment, however, Podolsky turned out to survive. Now he demands again to start a case against Pukach and wishes to achieve a complete review of the investigation to establish customers of iniquity.

Telichenko said that her " complaint relates only to the incompleteness of establishing motives of iniquity, namely the absence of the paragraph about the murder to order. Demidenko believes the sentence illegal.

3 Appeal of one trial on the sentence Pukach considered for about 2 years. Judicial meeting postponed due to repeated statements about the discharge of the Board of judges and lengthy process of declassifying documents.


Gongadze in April, 2000, he founded the Internet-the edition " Ukrainian truth ", which very quickly criticized the policies of former President of Ukraine Leonid Kuchma. A few months Gongadze reported to the General Prosecutor of Ukraine about the unknown threats to your own address. In September of the same year, journalist disappeared on the way home from work. Two weeks later, his headless body found in Tarashcha forest Kyiv region.

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