Still looking?

The Prosecutor General’s Office says that it is still trying to find those who ordered the killing of Georgy Gongadze, but complains of obstructions.

The Deputy Prosecutor General Serhiy Holomsha, during a meeting with journalists, rejected claims that his department was stalling the investigation and said that the main delay was in the refusal of former Presidential guard Mykola Melnychenko to hand over the originals of his secret tapes of the conversations Leonid Kuchma had.

The publication almost 8 years ago of a part of the recordings gave rise to suspicions that leading public officials had been implicated in the journalist’s abduction and murder.

Mykola Melnychenko is refusing to hand over all his records, saying that he does not trust the Prosecutor General’s Office.

Last month three men, all former police officers, were convicted of carrying out the murder of Georgy Gongadze.

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• Melnychenko suspending cooperation with the Prosecutor General
• Sentences in the Gongadze case: the end of the story?
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• “Mere pretence of an investigation into who ordered Gongadze’s killing
• Prosecutor wants 12 to 14 years for those accused of killing Georgy Gongadze
• New charge against the defendants in the Gongadze case
• Gongadze case yet again put on hold
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