Prosecutor General of Ukraine Ruslan Riaboshapka has promised to make public important information on the investigation into the murder of Kherson activist Kateryna Gandziuk soon.
“We will have tangible progress in this case. Probably we will inform the public on it as soon as next week,” he said at a press conference in Kyiv on Nov. 1.
The prosecutor general added that the investigation into this case has become more active since September 2019.
“So we will have results soon,” he said.
As reported, on July 31, 2018, an unidentified person doused activist Kateryna Gandziuk with concentrated sulfuric acid near her house in Kherson. She was taken to Kyiv for hospital treatment and died on November 4, 2018.
Five suspects, including a man identified by a video surveillance camera as the buyer of the acid, were detained.
In February 2019, Kyiv’s Shevchenkivsky District Court extended until July 3 the terms of the pretrial investigation of Manher, Anti-terrorist Operation (ATO) veteran Serhiy Torbin, a deputy to member of parliament Ihor Pavlovsky, and Oleksiy Levin (Moskalenko) for committing a criminal offense stipulated under Part 3 of Article 27 (types of complicity), Paragraphs 4, 6, 11, 12 of Part 2 of Article 115 (premeditated murder) of Ukraine’s Criminal Code.
On May 7, 2019, the PGO approved and sent to the court a bill of indictment in criminal proceedings against five persons accused of causing grievous bodily harm that resulted in Gandziuk’s death.
On June 6, 2019, the Pokrovsky District Court of Dnipropetrovsk Region approved a plea arrangement between investigators and five suspects in the case and sentenced them to imprisonment.
On October 22, 2019, Riaboshapka promised to show results of the investigation into the Gandziuk murder case in several months.
