Prosecutor close to solving the murder Boronenkov, said in Kiev
KYIV, 1 Jul — RIA Novosti. The Prosecutor General of Ukraine Yuriy Lutsenko said that the Prosecutor close to solving the murder of the former Deputy of the state Duma of the Russian Federation Denis Boronenkov.
Earlier, the Prosecutor General of Ukraine announced the arrest of 36-year-old resident of Pavlograd of Dnipropetrovsk region, on suspicion of involvement in the murder Boronenkov. The court arrested him for two months without the right of bail.
Voronenkov was killed March 23 in the center of Kiev. His bodyguard, a member of one of the Ukrainian secret service, shot and wounded the alleged murderer, who later died in hospital. The interior Ministry said that the killer had accomplices.
“We are close to solving this case, and this is another line”, — said Lutsenko in interview to the project “Radio Liberty”. Details of the investigation he had not.
He also said that he is not inclined to connect the case Boronenkov with the death of an employee of the main intelligence Directorate of the defense Ministry of Ukraine Colonel Maxim Shapoval.
Employee of the main intelligence Directorate of the defense Ministry of Ukraine Colonel Shapoval died on Tuesday in Kiev, in the explosion of the car. A criminal case under article “terrorist act”, the investigation deals with the military Prosecutor’s office of Ukraine. Earlier, the national police said that the explosive device was laid in the bottom of the car.
From Russia to Ukraine Boronenkov, along with his wife, also a former Deputy of the state Duma Maria Maksakova went last year and soon got citizenship there. He explained that political reasons, however, the Investigative Committee saw the departure Boronenkov attempt to hide from the investigation: former Deputy arrested in absentia in the case of raider capture of the building in Moscow.
After moving to Kiev, Boronenkov made a number of loud statements on Russia’s political life testified to the Prosecutor General’s office of Ukraine against former President Viktor Yanukovych. At the same time and Boronenkov, and Maksakova said that to vote in the state Duma of the annexation of Crimea to Russia, they supposedly made. Press Secretary of the President Dmitry Peskov has denied these allegations and noted that voting was voluntary.