Ukrainian Police Official Sentenced for Murder of Crusading Journalist
The former president is suspected of complicity
A Ukrainian court has convicted a former police general of killing an investigative journalist and sentenced him to life in prison.
Heorhiy Gongadze, who exposed high-level corruption, was kidnapped in September 2000 and his decapitated body was found in a forest outside Kiev several months later.
Then-president Leonid Kuchma was accused of involvement in the murder based on audio recordings secretly made in his office in which he allegedly conspires against the journalist. Prosecutors opened a probe against Kuchma in 2011, but a court dropped the charges against him later that year.
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