The case on the disappearance of Vasyl Klymentyev, the editor-in-chief of the Kharkiv-based New Style newspaper, is at a final stage, Ukrainian Interior Minister Anatoliy Mohyliov has said.
"The work is going on. I think that we are approaching its logical conclusion," he said at a meeting with Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych in Crimea, the presidential press service reported on Tuesday.
Klymentyev disappeared on August 11, 2010 and is still missing.
His colleagues have expressed concern that Klymentyev’s disappearance is connected to his professional work.
The Interior Ministry said that the relatives of the journalist reported his disappearance at 2230 on August 12.
Police officers established during enquiries that on August 11 Klymentyev left home along with an unknown man in a silver BMW car for an unknown destination.
On August 15, the investigation office of the Dzerzhynsky district police department in Kharkiv opened a criminal case under Article 115 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine (deliberate murder).
Various theories about the journalist’s disappearance are currently being considered, including those linked to the fulfillment of his professional duties.
On August 17, vacationers found a mobile phone with a SIM card belonging to Klymentyev in a boat in the Pechenihy reservoir (Siversky Donets River).
