The police are searching for Yaroslav Mazurok, a suspect in the case on the murder of security guards in the Karavan shopping center in Kyiv, Ukrainian Interior Minister Vitaliy Zakharchenko has said.
“They are searching for him all over the country… If we receive
information that this man has gone missing or has left for another
country, then we will put him on Interpol’s wanted list,” he told
journalists in Kyiv on Wednesday, when asked to comment on reports that
Mazurok is outside Ukraine.
As reported, a robber shot dead three employees of a private security
firm and seriously wounded another one in the Karavan shopping mall on
Luhova Street in Kyiv on September 26. One of the security guards saw a
visitor stealing a USB flash drive from a glass case. The guard asked
the man to go to the back room, where other guards were waiting. In the
room the man pulled out a gun and started shooting, killing three
security guards on the spot and seriously wounding a fourth. The
attacker then fled the scene.
The Obolon District Police Office has opened a criminal case on the
incident. The suspect was put on the wanted lists in Russia and Belarus
Executive Director of Karavan Serhiy Kyslenko promised Hr 100,000 for assistance in finding the suspect.
On October 5, Ukrainian Interior Minister Vitaliy Zakharchenko stated
that the killer of three security guards from the Karavan shopping mall
in Kyiv was Yaroslav Mazurok, a native of Lviv region, born in 1974,
who previously worked at private security firms.
