Posted on 03/10/2005 12:53:20 PM PST by lizol
EX-LEADER FACES PROBE
The former Ukraine president Leonid Kuchma has offered to meet detectives probing the murder of a journalist nearly five years ago.
Mr Kuchma has been accused of involvement in the killing of Heorhiy Gongadze whose decapitated body was found in 2000.
A spokesman for the prosecutor's office said that no date had been set for the meeting.
It is claimed Mr Kuchma was heard on secret recordings railing against the journalist and demanding he be taken care of.
But Mr Kuchma has denied all allegations against him and has questioned the authenticity of the tapes.
Prosecutors have arrested a number of suspects in connection with the killing.
President Viktor Yushchenko, who won power after mass protests and a rerun election, has pledged to solve the murder "as a matter of honour".
Two men are in custody and another is under orders not to leave Kiev.
A fourth, senior police official Oleksiy Pukach, is at large and is being sought on an international warrant.
At first I thought this was going to be an abduction-revenge thread.
Imperial Probe!
Interrogator Probe!
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EX-Ukraine LEADER FACES PROBEExcerpt:The former Ukraine president Leonid Kuchma has offered to meet detectives probing the murder of a journalist nearly five years ago.
Mr Kuchma has been accused of involvement in the killing of Heorhiy Gongadze whose decapitated body was found in 2000.
A spokesman for the prosecutor's office said that no date had been set for the meeting.
Please let me know if you want ON or OFF my Ukraine ping list!. . .don't be shy.
With all this political correctness these days, you can't even be a real gangster anymore. I tell ya the mob don't get no respect.
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