The General Prosecutor's Office of Ukraine should take control of the investigation into the disappearance of Vasyl Klymentyev, chief editor for the Kharkiv-based weekly Novyi Stil, a member of the Our Ukraine-People's Self-Defense faction and the shadow interior minister, Hennadiy Moskal, has said.
"I suppose that the General Prosecutor’s Office should demand and obtain this case from the Interior Ministry, create an investigation team of employees of the Security Service of Ukraine and solve it quickly," the press service of the People’s Self-Defense Movement cited Moskal as saying.
He is convinced that in this case the General Prosecutor’s Office and the Security Service of Ukraine have to intervene immediately, as long as "this crime was committed in the police environment."
"It is obvious that the Interior Ministry doesn’t feel like washing its dirty linen in public. That’s why political will is needed to solve this case, I mean, only the presidential administration can slam its fist on the table and order this case be solved, no matter who is behind it," Moskal said.
The deputy also said he assumed that the disappeared journalists was dead. "I hope, I’m mistaken, but the situation we are observing today and the information I have show that, unfortunately, he is not alive," the opposition minister noted.
As reported, the Interior Ministry said that the relatives of the journalist reported his disappearance at 22:30 on August 12.
Police officers found that on August 11 Klymentyev left home along with an unknown man in a silver BMW car.
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 his job as journalist.
