The investigators have opened a criminal case on the violations of the transport rules following a helicopter crash in Poltava Oblast and the death of former agrarian policy and food minister Taras Kutovy.
As a press service of the prosecution office in Poltava region reported, the investigation department of the Main Directorate of the National Police in the region put information into the Unified Register of Pre-trial Investigations on prequalification – violation of transport regulations – Article 291 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine. The procedural leadership in the case is carried out by the prosecutor’s office of the Poltava Oblast.
According to the investigation, a Robinson-44 helicopter crashed nearly at 1600 on October 21 near the village of Tarasenkove, Orzhytsky district, Poltava region. The helicopter was traveling from Kyiv to Poltava Oblast.
The police of Poltava Oblast reported the pilot died as a result of the crash.
Later on, it was reported that the 43-year old pilot of the helicopter was ex-parliamentarian and ex-Agrarian Policy and Food Minister Taras Kutovy.
Taras Kutovy was the financial director of the Ukrainian Step by Step Foundation and the XXI Century Investment Company through 1999-2009. Then he headed the supervisory board of the ‘Save the Village’ All-Ukrainian Public Union and PJSC Rise Company.
In 2012-2016, he was a People’s Deputy in the Verkhovna Rada of the VII and VIII convocations (Udar and Petro Poroshenko Bloc factions). He headed the Committee on Agrarian Policy and Land Relations. In April 2016, he took the post of Minister of Agricultural Policy and Food; in May 2017 he wrote a letter of resignation which was approved by the Verkhovna Rada only in November 2018.
