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Police draw blank on missing journalist
Kharkiv journalist Vasyl Klymentyev went missing on Aug. 11. He has not been seen since.

Police draw blank on missing journalist

Sep 2, 2010 at 07:02 | Staff reports
Vasyl Klymentyev, a well-known muckraker with close ties to Kharkiv law-enforcement officials, vanished without a trace on Aug. 11. What happened to the 67-year old journalist remains a mystery.

Key dates in the case

Aug. 11: Parents of 67-year Vasyl Klymentyev notify police about their son's disappearance. Police determine Klymentyev was last seen that day getting into a grey BMW sedan and driving off.

Aug. 15: Kharkiv police open criminal case for 1st degree murder.

Aug. 17: Klymentyev's mobile phone is found floating in the Pechenezskiy Reservoir, which is located near the estates of several well-off Kharkiv public officials.

Aug. 19: Klymentyev's assistant tells journalists in Kharkiv that an aide to a Kharkiv prosecutor offered Klymentyev $10,000 in exchange for not publishing negative information about him.

Aug. 26: Interior Minister Serhiy Mohylyov says his ministry's main investigative department will take take charge of the case because Kharkiv police officials may be involved.

Read what Klymentyev was writing about in his newspaper here.

Read a related Russian-language article about the case here.

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