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Ukrainian activist and journalist Tetyana Chornovol was the victim of a road-rage incident, and the investigation into her beating has been completed, Ukrainian Deputy Prosecutor General Roman Andreyev has said.

“It has been confirmed that the crime committed was an act of hooliganism,” he said at a briefing in Kyiv on Thursday.

Serhiy Kotenko and Roman Zaliubovsky, who have already been arrested, as well as two unidentified individuals and Andriy Zinchenko have been directly involved in the assault, he said.

“This man (Zinchenko) was on the wanted list. Today we have been informed by our counterparts in the Russian Federation about his arrest,” the deputy prosecutor general said.

The Prosecutor General’s Office has already started Zinchenko’s extradition to Ukraine, he added.

As reported, Chornovol was beaten in Kyiv region in the early hours of Dec. 25, 2013. She was driving her car when she was forced off the road by a dark-colored car. Unidentified individuals pulled the journalist out of the car and beat her up, pushing her car into a ditch.

The police first opened criminal proceedings under Part 2, Article 269 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine (disorderly conduct), which were later re-qualified for Part 2, Article 121 of the Criminal Code (causing grievous bodily harm).