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There are currently no accused people or suspects linked to the disappearance of Vasyl Klymentyev, the editor-in-chief of the Kharkiv-based weekly newspaper New Style, the spokeswoman for the Ukrainian Interior Ministry's main office in Kharkiv region, Larysa Volkova, has told the Ukrainian service of Germany's international broadcaster Deutsche Welle.

According to the official representatives of the investigation, eight theories on the journalist’s disappearance were being considered, 500 witnesses have been questioned, and 11 volumes of documents on the case drafted.

The regional prosecutor’s office noted that the checks of the possible involvement of law enforcement officers whom Klymentyev mentioned in his articles shortly before his disappearance had not revealed anything suspicious, Deutsche Welle reported.

Volkova said that about 200 employees of the Prosecutor General’s Office, the investigation departments of the Ukrainian Interior Ministry and the Security Service of Ukraine were working on the case in Kharkiv, with two deputy prosecutors general and two deputy interior ministers heading this group.

She also said that the last people who saw Klymentyev were his driver and an assistant editor of the newspaper. However, she denied that the driver had disappeared, as previously stated by the assistant editor.

"We received no statement about the disappearance of the driver from his relatives," Volkova said.

The police also refused to confirm the disappearance of a journalist of the New Style newspaper, Viacheslav Ismailov, who describes himself as a lawyer.

Klymentyev, the editor-in-chief of the New Style newspaper, disappeared on August 11, and his whereabouts are still unknown. His colleagues said that the disappearance of the journalist could be linked to his professional activities.