Leonid Kuchma ordered the murder of Gongadze

Ex- general of Ukraine Oleksiy Pukach MDV called ordering the murder of journalist Georgy Gongadze, the ex- President Leonid Kuchma.
Former Ukrainian President Leonid Kuchma ordered the liquidation of the journalist Georgiy Gongadze in 2000, declared the former Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine Oleksiy Pukach, confessed to the murder of reporter. In the course of the incident, he said, as the then head of the presidential administration Volodymyr Lytvyn and former Interior Minister Yuri Kravchenko was found dead at his home in 2005, according to newspaper. py.

The main accused in the murder of Ukrainian journalist Georgiy Gongadze in 2000, the former head of the department surveillance of the main control MIA has named Alex Pukach customers crimes. Court sessions, which began in April, held behind closed doors, and journalists who gathered Tuesday in front of the Kiev Pechersk district court, the information conveyed social activist Alex Podolsky, passing on the case of a victim.

During the meeting, Pukach admitted that personally committed the murder of Gongadze, but ...
... Thus, a crime known as the then chief of staff Volodymyr Lytvyn, Kuchma and senior Interior Ministry - Minister Yuri Kravchenko and his deputy, Nicholas jig. In his testimony appears as chief of staff Edward Feret Interior.

In his testimony Pukach told me that after he and his accomplices, who were employees of the department of external surveillance and criminal intelligence Interior Ministry Valery Kostenko, Mykola Protasov and Oleksandr Popovych, was killed in a forest near Kiev kidnapped earlier in the day Gongadze ( according to the investigation . 10 am September 17, 2000 ), the next day he went to Kravchenko, a report. In the office of the Minister were already the head of the presidential administration, Volodymyr Lytvyn, the jig and Feret. According to Pukach, Kravchenko said Litvin, ... ... ...

All these factors have been described previously in the case file, part confession Pukach. Then all the persons involved in the case categorically denied any involvement in the murder of Gongadze.

Against Kuchma in March, was prosecuted on charges of complicity in the murder of Gongadze. After several calls to the ex- head of the state prosecutor's office for questioning, it was quiet.

Kuchma, whose opposition to the last ten years, the customer considered a crime because of the memorable films of the major public service of Nikolai Melnichenko, the investigation came as a last resort. Kravchenko was found dead at his dacha near Kiev, March 4, 2005, on the eve of his birthday. He had discovered two gunshot wounds to the head, made ​​of different caliber weapons. The investigation has recognized his death by suicide. On the day he was supposed to come in for questioning to the Prosecutor General, resumed after the ... There is Kravchenko's suicide note, which is the admission that he ...