The court of Kyiv will see an appeal on the case concerning the murder of journalist Georgiy Gongadze
The Kyiv court of appeals has appointed on 24 November the complaint on the conviction of a former head of intelligence and surveillance, Ministry of internal Affairs of Ukraine Oleksiy Pukach, who received a life sentence for the killing of journalist Georgy Gongadze, said the Agency lawyer of Myroslava Gongadze Valentyna Telychenko.
in the last month of summer of the current year at a closed meeting of the judge of the Pechersk court considered an appeal by the convicted on the question of reduction of sentence, as well as the intercession of the messenger of the affected side on a full review of the case.
The victims in the case is a journalist Oleksiy Podolsky. The result proved that he, as a journalist Georgy Gongadze, Pukach was taken to the forest for punishment. Podolski managed to survive. Now he demands again to start a business Pukach to identify the customer's crimes.
according to the comments of the journalist, the judge who handed down the sentence Pukach, together with the prosecution pressured General of police, that he was not mentioned in their testimony the names of former bureaucrats.
Podolski has sought to change the composition of the jury, considering the appeal on the case, but the judge then took the rejection.
Pechersk district court of Kyiv on January 29, 2013 found the officers guilty of forcible deprivation of life in the year 2000, a well-known Ukrainian journalist Georgy Gongadze and sentenced him to life imprisonment (the maximum measure of redemption in Ukraine).
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