A court in Kyiv will continue its consideration of the appeals in the case of Gongadze
The Kyiv Court of appeals on Tuesday will continue the hearing of the appeal against the sentence 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.
Meetings to consider Appeals nonstop tolerated, side Gongadze family believes that Pukach tightens consideration, because this fall will be fifteen years since the assassination, as this time period is the Statute of limitations for the felony of iniquity, for which there is concern that Pukach may be on the loose.
However, Pukach said that when considering the case in the Pechersk district court of Kyiv has incriminated himself under pressure from law enforcement, judge and defender of the widow Gongadze Valentina Telichenko.
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, the Court ordered Pukach 62, 5 thousand dollars in favor of the family devoid of the life of a journalist.
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, but 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, during 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.
The appeal on the case 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 demands again to start a case against 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. However, before the Court began to consider really, Telichenko Gongadze and his complaint was withdrawn.
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