Ukraine reacted to the appearance of an audio recording on the network, which allegedly recorded a conversation involving the former chairman KGB of Belarus about the planned murder of a journalist Pavel Sheremet . “Strana.ua” informs about it.
The version about the involvement of the Belarusian special services in the crime will not affect the course of the criminal case against the defendants who are already accused of murdering the journalist, said the deputy head of the Ukrainian MIA Anton Gerashchenko .
“This version does not in any way affect the status of the suspects in the Sheremet case, who are suspected of carrying out the murder. The version concerns the possible options of who ordered the murder, and not its executor,” Gerashchenko explained.
The National Police of Ukraine reported on its page in Facebook December, with the help of intelligence, she received information of interest in the investigation of the death of a journalist. It is partially published on the web. In the released records, unidentified persons discuss the murder of Sheremet by poisoning or an explosion. The police received permission to conduct investigative actions in one of the European countries.
Previously, entry of 2012 appeared on the network, on which the then head The KGB of Belarus Vadim Zaitsev discusses the murder of Sheremet and others with two employees of the Alpha special unit of the president’s critics Alexander Lukashenko . “You need to work with Sheremet, who *** (tired – approx. ” Lenta.ru “). Let’s make a bookmark of some kind and so on, so that this rat will not collect arms or legs at all,” Zaitsev said.
Sheremet died in Kiev in 2016 when his car was blown up. In Ukraine, three participants in the war in Donbass were detained and accused of organizing the murder. According to the investigation, they wanted to destabilize the situation in the country.