You're reading: Court puts off hearing on Pukach case until Dec.19

Kyiv's Pechersky District Court will continue on Dec. 19 hearings on the criminal case under which Oleksiy Pukach, the former head of the Ukrainian Interior Ministry's external surveillance department, is accused of the murder of journalist Georgy Gongadze.

The lawyer for the journalist’s widow Myroslava Gongadze, Valentyna Telychenko, told Interfax-Ukraine that the break was announced after a break in the sitting on Thursday.

Telychenko noted that interrogation of Pukach has not yet been finished.