Ukrainian Prime Minister Mykola Azarov doesn't believe that ex-President Leonid Kuchma was involved in the murder of Ukrainian journalist Georgy Gongadze in 2000.
First Deputy Prosecutor General Renat Kuzmin said investigators have evidence that former Ukrainian President Leonid Kuchma is involved in the murder of journalist Georgiy Gongadze in 2000.
Viktor Petrunenko, a lawyer of second Ukrainian President Leonid Kuchma (1994-2005), has said he believes that the mentioning of the name of his client by Oleksiy Pukach, the former head of the Ukrainian Interior Ministry's external surveillance, who was convicted of the murder of journalist Georgy Gongadze, is unsubstantiated from a legal point of view.
The OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, Dunja Mijatovic, today welcomed the conviction of the murderer of Ukrainian journalist Georgy Gongadze, the former chief of the Ukrainian Interior Ministry's external surveillance department, Oleksiy Pukach, while urging the Ukrainian authorities to continue to pursue the instigators of this crime.
Lesia Gongadze, the mother of journalist Georgy Gongadze who was killed in 2000, has said that she will not recognize her son's death and is planning to defend his honor and dignity in court.
A Ukrainian court has sentenced a former interior ministry official to life in prison for the 2000 murder of an investigative journalist.
Myroslava Gongadze, the widow of Ukrainian journalist Georgy Gongadze killed in 2000, believes the proceedings concerning her husband's murder will be completed after not only those who actually committed the murder, but also those who ordered it have been punished.
The judgment by Kyiv's Pechersky District Court in the case of Oleksiy Pukach is the one requested by prosecutors, although there are some differences, the public prosecutor in the case, Volodymyr Shylov, has said.
Valentyna Telychenko, the lawyer of Myroslava Gongadze, the wife of murdered journalist Georgy Gongadze, will insist on a new investigation into the case of the death of former Interior Minister of Ukraine Yuriy Kravchenko.
Former police general Oleksiy Pukach was convicted and given a life prison sentence on Jan. 29 for the intentional murder of journalist Georgiy Gongadze on Sept. 16, 2000. But the nearly 13-year-old saga since the journalist went missing is not over, as the lawyer for Gongadze’s widow, Myroslava, will appeal the ruling in an effort to bring those who ordered the murder to justice.
Valentyna Telychenko, a lawyer of Myroslava Gongadze, the wife of murdered journalist Georgy Gongadze, intends to appeal against the verdict of Kyiv's Pechersky District Court in a criminal case against former chief of the external surveillance department of the Ukrainian Interior Ministry, Oleksiy Pukach, who was found guilty of the murder of Gongadze and sentenced to life in prison for it.
The surnames of second president of Ukraine (1994-2005) Leonid Kuchma and ex-chairman of Verkhovna Rada Volodymyr Lytvyn were not mentioned in the verdict on former chief of the external surveillance department of the Ukrainian Interior Ministry, Oleksiy Pukach, the text of which was announced at Pechersky District Court of Kyiv.
Andriy Fedur, the lawyer of Lesia Gongadze, the mother of murdered journalist Georgy Gongadze, is unlikely to appeal against the decision of Kyiv's Pechersky District Court to find former chief of the external surveillance department of the Ukrainian Interior Ministry, Oleksiy Pukach, guilty of killing Gongadze and sentence him to life in prison.
A Ukrainian court has convicted a former police general of killing an investigative journalist and sentenced him to life in prison.
Kyiv's Pechersky District Court has sentenced the former chief of the external surveillance department of the Ukrainian Interior Ministry, Oleksiy Pukach, to life in prison for killing journalist Georgy Gongadze.
Valentyna Telychenko, the lawyer for Georgy Gongadze's widow, Myroslava Gongadze, has supported the prosecutor's opinion that the former chief of the Ukrainian Interior Ministry's external surveillance department, Oleksiy Pukach, should be sentenced to life imprisonment. Verdict to Pukach to be announced in open regive on January 29.
The prosecutor in the hearing of the criminal case against Oleksiy Pukach, the former head of the Ukrainian Interior Ministry's external surveillance department, on the murder of journalist Georgy Gongadze has asked Kyiv's Pechersky District Court to sentence Pukach to life imprisonment.
Former State Guard Department Major Mykola Melnychenko has confirmed a statement by the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) that he finished examining all 17 volumes of a criminal case opened against him regarding the divulging of state secrets.
The central investigation department of the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) has completed an investigation into a criminal case against former State Guard Department Major Mykola Melnychenko regarding the divulging of state secrets.
Kyiv's Pechersky District Court can retire to the deliberations room on December 27 to pass a sentence on former head of the Ukrainian Interior Ministry's external surveillance department Oleksiy Pukach, who is charged with killing of journalist Georgy Gongadze.