The opposition Ukrainian journalist Georgy Gongadze was killed in September 2000 on orders from the then Ukrainian Interior Minister Yuri Kravchenko. This comes in an article in today’s issue of the Ukrainskaya Pravda daily with reference to a source in the republic’s Prosecutor-General’s Office. According to the daily, it was Kravchenko who gave a verbal order to that end to Police General Alexei Pukach, who is still under investigation. The former Interior Minister was found dead at his dacha in March 2005, on the day when he was due to have turned up at the Prosecutor-General’s Office to give evidence in the Gongadze case. Read the story here.
Voice of Russia: Ukraine’s journalist Gongadze was killed on orders of interior minister
Journalist Georgiy Gongadze disappeared in Kyiv on Sept. 16, 2000. State prosecutors on Sept. 14, 2010 wrapped up their 10-year investigation of the crime, saying former Interior Minister Yuriy Kravchenko had ordered the journalist's murder.
