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Kiev’s Shevchenko District Court Judge Oksana Golub said Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, Interior Minister Arsen Avakov and former Attorney General Ruslan Ryaboshapka were not direct witnesses to the circumstances that must be proven in the murder case. from journalist Pavel Sheremet.
Kiev’s Shevchenko District Court refused to question Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, Interior Minister Arsen Avakov and former Attorney General Ruslan Ryaboshapka in the case of the murder of journalist Pavel Sheremet. On October 21, Judge Oksana Golub announced it at the meeting, the broadcast was made by “UA: Pershy.”
The defense said that Zelensky, Avakov and Ryaboshapka should be questioned about the circumstances they learned about in this case.
“These people were not direct witnesses of the circumstances that are subject to evidence in this criminal proceeding, nor are they witnesses in the understanding of Article 65 of the Criminal Procedure Code,” said the judge.
According to her, the decision to question other officials, including police officers who are investigators or witnesses involved in certain actions, will be made by the court after the investigation.
Sheremet died on the morning of July 20, 2016 in Kiev. The prosecution described the incident as a first-degree murder committed as dangerous to the lives of many people.
The investigation considered four versions of the motives for Sheremet’s murder: professional activity, hostile personal relationships, destabilization of the situation in Ukraine, murder by mistake (instead of Pritula). In February 2017, the priority version of law enforcement officers was Sheremet’s journalistic activities.
On December 12, Ukraine’s Interior Minister Arsen Avakov announced the arrest of those suspected of being involved in the Sheremet assassination. In an urgent briefing, Deputy Chief of the National Police Yevgeny Koval named the detainees: the nurse of one of the paratrooper battalions Yana Dugar, the doctor and volunteer Yulia Kuzmenko, the musician and volunteer Andrey Antonenko and the family of the ATO participants: Vladislav and Inna Grishchenko. The police called the main version of the murder destabilizing the situation in Ukraine.
Attorney General Ruslan Ryaboshapka said the investigation has yet to find the party who ordered the murder.
On December 9, Grishchenko testified in court that he was allegedly offered to take responsibility for the murder of Sheremet or an employee of the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine, Maksim Shapoval, as well as for the blown electric poles. in October 2015 in the Kherson region. On December 10, Ukrayinska Pravda reported that several decisions on the case of Vladislav Grishchenko, who, along with his wife Inna, are detained in the case of preparing an explosion in the Ivano-Frankivsk region, disappeared from the Unified Register of Judicial Decisions .
ATO veteran Ivan Vakulenko was mentioned in the briefing among the defendants in the case. On November 7, INSIDER wrote that he received a subpoena on October 16 for questioning in the Sheremet case scheduled for October 21, and on October 18 the veteran’s sister found his body with a head injury. According to the newspaper, the circumstances of Vakulenko’s death may indicate an attempt to “charge” him with the murder of Sheremet.
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