Lutsenko says investigation has two theories behind Voronenkov murder

Published March 23, 2017 at 5:06 pm

Ukrainian Prosecutor General Yuriy Lutsenko and Anatoly Matios, the chief military prosecutor, near the place where Denis Voronenkov, an exiled Russian lawmaker, was killed in a shootout on Pushkinska Street in central Kyiv, near the Premier Palace Hotel, on March 23.

Photo by Kostyantyn Chernichkin

The investigation into the assassination of former State Duma deputy Denis Voronenkov is probing into two theories, i.e. his murder as a witness to the former Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych case and as a witness to contraband in the Federal Security Service (FSB) structure, Ukrainian Prosecutor General Yuriy Lutsenko said.

“At the time preliminary theories are a theory of his assassination as a witness to the Yanukovych case, and the murder within the FSB contraband case covered by the president of the Russian Federation,” he told a news briefing in Kyiv on March 23.