People suspected of involvement in ex-Duma deputy Voronenkov's killing detained in Ukraine's Pavlohrad
KYIV. June 16 (Interfax) - Investigative procedures related to the assassination of former State Duma deputy Denis Voronenkov in Kyiv are under way in the city of Pavlohrad, the Dnipropetrovsk region of Ukraine, the Ukrainian National Police reported on Friday.
"Law enforcement officials are detaining people suspected of involvement in this crime. The detainees are being brought to police stations for further necessary investigative procedures," the National Police said on its website.
"The necessary investigative procedures, including searches, are under way," it said.
The investigative procedures are being handled by the Prosecutor General's Office along with police, it said.
It was reported earlier that Voronenkov had been assassinated in the center of Kyiv on March 23, 2017; his killer was wounded by Voronenkov's bodyguard and later died at a hospital.
Earlier on Thursday, Ukrainian National Police deputy chief and chief of the National Police department for Kyiv Andriy Kryshchenko said investigators were analyzing circumstances preceding the assassination, and nobody has yet been officially declared a suspect.
"Serious work has indeed been done on this case. There are a number of significant avenues. I'll tell you more: nobody has yet been declared a suspect. But work is being done very intensively," Kryshchenko said in an interview with Interfax.
"There are two aspects into which this crime could be split," Kryshchenko said. "First, the assassination itself and the killer who was shot. Second, the killer's motives, his assistants and accessories," he said.
"The very fact of the murder is obvious and has been determined. All circumstances have been examined, and I don't think there are any questions," Kryshchenko said.
The Kyiv city prosecutor's office is probing the second aspect of the crime, Kryshchenko said. "When some results are available, I believe the prosecutor's office will issue a comment," he said.
