People stand in line in Kiev to mark another year passed since killing Georgy Gongadze, whose headless corpse was found in 2000.
Photo: Vladislav Sodel
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Slovakia Found Another Corpse of Gongadze
A special commission of Ukrainian parliament set to probing into the case of murdered journalist Georgy Gongadze. A corpse of a man killed at time of Gongadze’s murder was found in Slovakia, according to documents submitted by Slovak investigators, whose supposition is that the body could be the remains of Gongadze. So, very soon, the inquest will probably begin at the beginning in Ukraine.
“The Slovaks reported their find to our enforcement bodies and requested some samples to identify remains by expert examination to either confirm or disprove their supposed belonging to Gongadze,” said Ukrainian Supreme Rada’s deputy Svyatoslav Oliinyk, who was the first to present the information to the public at large.
The deputy refused to shed light on the methods of obtaining the files of Slovak investigators or specify the facts that propted them to suppose that the remains dating to the fall of 2000 could belong to the killed reporter.
But Oliinyk explained reasons for addressing the public. It is the failure of Ukrainian investigators to act, the legislator said. At first, the documents went to Ukrainian Interior Ministry via Interpol and Interior Minister Yury Lutsenko forwarded them to prosecutors. The latter, however, attached no importance to the case.
“For some reason, our prosecutors refused to respond to the news,” Oliinyk pointed out. “They said the papers were wrongly drawn up.”
The prosecutors acknowledged they got the letter from Interior Ministry far back in October. But because of improper execution, they returned the documents to the Interpol office in Ukraine for inspection and proper response. The evidences collected in time of prejudicial inquiry of Gongadze’s case are sufficient for proving that the body found in Ukraine belonged to the journalist, the prosecutors said.
Meanwhile, Oliinyk passed the documents to a temporarily parliamentary commission, which target is to find reasons for improper investigation of Gongadze’s murder. “Should it be found out that the body belonged to Gongadze, it could drastically turn over investigation,” the deputy said.
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