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The Shevchenkivsky district court of Kyiv on February 5 will continue hearing the case on charges of Yaroslav Tarasenko and Alexander Los in abetting the murder of ex-State Duma deputy Denis Voronenkov.

At a meeting on Friday, the court heard the prosecution witness Bohdana Anatoliyivna Nedilia, who confirmed the fact of acquaintance and meeting of the murderer Pavlo Parshov and his accomplice Yaroslav Levents, an Interfax-Ukraine correspondent reported.

The court also decided to call the witness for the prosecution Vita Ivanivna Vorona.

The next meeting will be held at 14:30 on February 5.

As earlier reported, Voronenkov was shot dead in the center of Kyiv on March 23, 2017. The shooter, Pavlo Parshov, was wounded by the ex-MP’s bodyguard and died later in the hospital. Parshov’s accomplice Yaroslav Levenets has since 2012 been wanted for economic crimes. Tarasenko is also a suspected accomplice. He was detained on July 16. Los and Tarasenko are suspected of organizing the crime, hiring two drivers and the killer. Tarasenko was the driver of the Lanos sedan, in which the killer arrived to the murder.

Ukraine’s Prosecutor General Yuriy Lutsenko said that the person who ordered the murder is in Russia and has active contacts with the criminal world and special services. According to him, “those who carried out the killing are mainly citizens of Ukraine.” It later became known that Russian citizen Vladimir Tyurin – the former husband of Voronenkov’s spouse Maria Maksakovaya – was a suspect. He was put on the wanted list in Ukraine in March 2018.

The pretrial investigation into the murder of Voronenkov was completed in May 2018, the organizer and five accomplices were notified of suspicion.

On June 11, 2018, the indictment in criminal proceedings was given to Shevchenkivsky District Court, which on June 13 extended for two months the term of detention for Tarasenko and Los, but returned the indictment for revision. On August 7, the court, following a preliminary hearing, ruled that the case should be opened for trial by a jury.

On October 18, the court began considering the criminal proceedings on the merits against Tarasenko and Los in complicity in Voronenkov murder.

On November 13, the Kyiv’s Shevchenkivsky District Court finished reading out the indictment on charges of Tarasenko and Los in abetting the murder. The court determined the procedure for examining evidence in the case, and also decided to first interrogate witnesses, and then the victims.