Ukrainian Prosecutor General Viktor Pshonka has said that the case of the murder of MP Yevhen Scherban is being actively investigated and that those who ordered his killing will be found.
“The case is being investigated, and as every criminal case that is being investigated, the word ‘investigation’ means that there’s progress in the case,” he said at a press conference on Friday.
Pshonka said that investigative measures were being conducted.
“The criminal case is being investigated, and until evidence and those who ordered Scherban’s murder are found, the case will be investigated. It will be investigated to its logical end,” Pshonka said.
He also promised that the criminal case would be actively investigated.
Scherban, a member of the Liberal Party’s executive committee and a parliamentarian, was gunned down while disembarking a plane at the Donetsk airport on November 3, 1996. The killers fled the scene in a car. Scherban, his wife and a mechanic died from injuries on the spot. The plane’s flight engineer injured to his neck died later in a hospital. Law enforcement agencies ruled out political motives behind the crime.
The Luhansk Regional Court of Appeals found Vadym Bolotskykh guilty of killing Scherban and sentenced him to life in prison in April 2003.
Yevhen Scherban’s son, Ruslan Scherban, a member of the Donetsk Regional Council, said at a press conference on April 4, 2012 that he had passed documents indicating to Tymoshenko’s and Lazarenko’s possible involvement in his father’s murder to the Prosecutor General’s Office.
Tymoshenko and Lazarenko have categorically denied their involvement in the murder.
