A court in Kiev see the complaint of the convicted person for the deprivation of life Gongadze
The Kyiv Court of appeals will look against the verdict to the former head of exploration and observation of the Ministry of internal Affairs of Ukraine Alexey Pukach, who was sentenced to life in prison for taking the life of journalist Georgy Gongadze. Protection Pukach, a lawyer for his widow and another Injured journalist pushing for reconsideration.
The Pechersky district Court of Kiev on January 29, 2013 recognized Pukach guilty in the death of Gongadze and sentenced him to life imprisonment. In addition to the life sentence of Pechersk district Court of Kyiv ordered Pukach 62, 5 thousand dollars in favor of the family devoid of life.
Gongadze in April, 2000, he founded the Internet-the edition " Ukrainian truth ", which very quickly criticized the policies of former President of Ukraine Leonid Kuchma. A few months Gongadze reported to the General Prosecutor of Ukraine about the unknown threats to your own address. In September of the same year, journalist disappeared on the way home from work. Two weeks later, his headless body found in Tarashcha forest Kyiv region.
Soon after the incident were made public record, as if made by the former major of state protection Nikolay Melnichenko in the office of then President Kuchma. To record the voice, like the voice of Kuchma's orders to "deal" with the journalist. In addition, the authenticity of the records has until now not been reliably established. Also no proven link between them and the elimination of the journalist. There are contradictions on the issue and whether the headless body with the Gongadze.
A few years Pukach was hiding from law enforcement and in 2009 he was placed behind bars. In the course of the investigation, the former head of foreign intelligence service of the Ministry of interior admitted that he personally strangled the journalist at the direction of then head of the Ministry of internal Affairs Yury Kravchenko. The court in its own sentence showed that Pukach committed the murder, wanting to move up the career ladder.
along with this, in the process of the trial he said he believes the assassination of former President Leonid Kuchma and ex-Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada Volodymyr Lytvyn. Kuchma and Lytvyn reject its attachment to deprivation of life. Case opened against them, was closed shortly before its initiation.
Appeals in the case of Pukach was filed by the lawyer of the widow of the journalist Miroslava Gongadze Valentina Telichenko and Pukach's lawyer Gregory Demidenko and another Injured in fact - journalist Oleksiy Podolsky.
The investigation proved that Podolsky, as well as the journalist Gongadze, Pukach was taken to the forest For punishment, however, Podolsky turned out to survive. Now he needs to start it again Pukach and wishes to achieve a complete review of the investigation to establish customers of iniquity.
Telichenko said that her " complaint relates only to the incompleteness of establishing motives of iniquity, namely the absence of the paragraph about the murder to order. Demidenko believes the sentence illegal.
3 Appeal of one trial on the sentence Pukach considered for about 2 years. Judicial meeting postponed due to repeated statements about the discharge of the Board of judges and lengthy process of declassifying documents.
The Ukrainian authorities are trying to achieve openness of the complaint. A court session was held behind closed doors due to imposed on the media in the trial of Pukach of secrecy. Later, the Minister of internal Affairs of Ukraine Arsen Avakov and the head of the security service of Ukraine Valentyn Nalyvaichenko has called for consideration of the complaint on the decision of the court was held in an open manner. For this secrecy was removed from more than half of the 227 media on the case. 30 media security classification was changed from "top secret" to " secret ". In upcoming meetings the Court wishes to begin to consider the Appeal, at present in the open mode.
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