The man who allegedly ordered an attack on Deputy Head of Kyiv Regional State Administration Yuriy Chyzhmar is a police officer, and the crime was committed because of jealousy, investigators say.
Chief of the Ukrainian Interior Ministry’s main department in Kyiv Oleksiy Krykun said at a briefing in Kyiv that first the alleged executor of the crime, who had problems with the law, had been detained, and then information was received that a police officer could be involved in the crime.
Krykun said that through the crime’s executor police officers discovered who had ordered the crime. It turned out to be a police captain, born in 1980, who heads one of the territorial divisions of the Solomiansky district police department of Kyiv city.
"It turned out that the motive was domestic – because of a woman," Krykun said, and noted that the police officer had dated a woman from Ternopil region for about a year, they had planned to get married, but "Chyzhmar had prevented this."
The chief of Kyiv main police department said that Chyzhmar has not given official evidence as he is in hospital, and information that was obtained from him "was not [official]."
At the same time, Krykun said that information about the state of health of the deputy head of Kyiv City State Administration can be provided by doctors, but noted that Chyzhmar "is recovering."
