Law enforcers continue to carry out searches under the case on the murder of journalist Pavlo Sheremet. In the early hours of Friday, a search was held in the apartment of volunteers Yevhen and Natalia Akastelovs.
Yevhen Akastelov wrote on Facebook that the police arrived after midnight. The search in his apartment lasted until 5 a.m.
The police seized USB sticks, HDDs, non-working computers and a registered hunting rifle.
Yevhen Akastelov was deputy commander of the First Hundred during the Revolution of Dignity in 2014. His wife Natalia rendered aid to wounded soldiers in hospitals.
As reported, journalist Pavlo Sheremet was killed in a car explosion in central Kyiv on July 20, 2016. The explosion occurred when Sheremet was driving a vehicle that belonged to Ukrayinska Pravda Director Olena Prytula, who was not in it at the time. The journalist died at the scene shortly following the bomb blast.
On December 12, 2019, the police carried out a number of searches and notified several people of suspicion under the criminal case.
On the same day, leadership of the National Police and the Interior Ministry of Ukraine and President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky held a press briefing to disclose the intermediary results of the investigation and to make public the names of the suspects.
Three persons, namely, military nurse Yana Duhar, volunteer and children’s doctor Yulia Kuzmenko, as well as musician and “Donbas veteran” Andriy Antonenko were identified as suspects in Sheremet’s murder. All of them were detained. Vladyslav and Inna Hryshchenko, as well combatants who fought in eastern Ukraine, were detained as part of another case, but they are identified as defendants in the Sheremet murder.
Deputy Chief of the National Police, Head of the Criminal Police Yevhen Koval said that the main motive for the murder Sheremet was the destabilization of the internal socio-political situation in the country.
