Borys Herman, the man suspected of overseeing a plot to assassinate journalist Arkady Babchenko, has been remanded in custody by a Kyiv court.
Herman is alleged to have promised $40,000 to a would-be assassin for the killing of Babchenko.
RFE/RL: Ukraine arrests suspect in alleged Babchenko assassination plot
Borys Herman, head of a Ukrainian-German weapons firm, attends a court hearing in Kyiv on May 31, 2018 after being arrested the day before for being the alleged mastermind of a plot against a Russian journalist.Ukraine was under fire today after it admitted staging the murder of anti-Kremlin journalist Arkady Babchenko, despite relief in Russia and Ukraine that he was alive. Babchenko made a shock reappearance at a press conference in Kyiv on May 30, less than 24 hours after the Ukrainian authorities reported he had been shot dead at his home in a contract-style killing blamed on Russia.
