A former officer of the State Security Guard of Ukraine, Major Mykola Melnychenko, tried to secretly record a face-to-face interrogation with second Ukrainian President (1994-2005) Leonid Kuchma at the Prosecutor General's Office on Monday, the Segodnia newspaper has reported, referring to the information by one of the lawyers of the ex-president.
"I drew attention to Mykola’s left hand, which was held at the level of his chest [and] on which there was a massive watch directed to our side, and the clock dial showed 11.14.10, or the time when Mykola entered the office of the investigator. In other words, the watch had already come to a standstill, and we suspected it has other functions, and [we] drew investigator’s attention to this," Kuchma’s lawyer Viktor Petrunenko told the newspaper.
Then there was a break in the face-to-face interrogation after which, according to Petrunenko, the former major came to the office without the watch.
According to another of Kuchma’s lawyers, Mykhailo Kysylevych, after the break Melnychenko held is hands under the table, on his lap, covered with a coat.
In a phone interview with the Segodnia, Melnychenko dismissed the matter with a joke: "Maybe were was a gun in my watch? And it was produced with the use of stealth technology?”
Then Melnychenko added that if the representatives of Leonid Kuchma have any questions they should address the Prosecutor General’s Office.
