Журнал Viche 2013 №3

№3, 2013

Gongadze’ case: three dots?

On January, 29, 2013 Pecherskiy District Court in Kyiv announced the verdict of guilty to former head of Department of External observation of the MIA of Ukraine Oleksiy Pukach. He was brought in a verdict of guilty of the murder of the opposition journalist Georgiy Gongadze. Over 120 books of the case, detection of the accused involving Interpol, 12 years of investigation, trial in the closed session and as the result is conviction of O. Pukach to life imprisonment. A few years earlier former employees of the Department of External observation of the MIA of Ukraine Mykola Protasov, Oleksandr Popovych and Valeriy Kostenko who were also involved in the murder of journalist Georgiy Gongadze , were deprived of liberty.