Ukraine’s Prosecutor General Yuriy Lutsenko has said that the investigation team has identified all the people who ordered and organized the attack on an advisor to the mayor of Kherson, civil activist Kateryna Gandziuk, which led to her death.
“A notice of suspicion has already been delivered to an assistant to a member of the parliament and I think that we will soon send out a few more notices of suspicion that will finally show the exact people who were involved in ordering, organizing and carrying out that offense,” he said in an interview with ICTV channel on Dec. 3 night.
Lutsenko said there are “a few dozens of versions” of that crime; however, at present, the investigation team has come to an agreement that they have found the main version. “And we can see the motive – it was Gandziuk’s activities against one of the largest corruption schemes of the local authorities. And all those who ordered that murder, and those who organized it, have been identified by us,” the prosecutor general said.
As was earlier reported, an unidentified person poured concentrated sulfuric acid over Gandziuk in the vicinity of her house in Kherson. The activist suffered severe chemical burns and had to be taken to the local hospital. Soon she was transferred to a hospital in Kyiv. On Nov. 5, Gandziuk died.
On Oct. 18, Viacheslav Abroskin, first deputy head of the National Police of Ukraine, reported that the police had detained five people who were suspected in committing the assault on Gandziuk. Two persons were arrested and the other three were placed under 24h house arrest.
