Avakov: Due to the error in the investigation of the murder of Sheremet, you have to check all the facts

One of the participants in the investigation of the murder of journalist Pavel Sheremet made a mistake due to which it is necessary to double-check all the case materials. This was stated by the Minister of Internal Affairs of Ukraine Arsen Avakov, Ukrainian Pravda reports .

“There was a situation in which a technical one of the employees was allowed or, so, other negligence, which, in my opinion, did not affect anything significantly,” Avakov noted. “But the presence of such negligence in one case of almost two thousand made us completely process the entire array again, checking each of the facts, and we are now busy with this.”

Journalists who conducted their own investigation and identified additional facts should have shared this information with the investigation, the minister emphasized. “An additional fact becomes a journalist, and the journalist does not share this additional fact with the investigation, but makes a movie. I think that it looks a little strange,” Avakov said, recalling that concealing facts from the investigation is a crime.

On Wednesday, the Prosecutor General of Ukraine Yuri Lutsenko, reporting to the Verkhovna Rada, said that the investigation made a mistake in the murder of Sheremet without taking “one of the most important videos”.

Early on the morning of July 20, 2016 in the center of Kiev Sheremet died as a result of an explosion of a bomb laid under the bottom of his car. The jeep belonged to the civilian wife of the journalist - the head of the Ukrainian Pravda Alena Prutula. The hostess herself was not in the car in the car.

The FBI connected to the investigation of the crime at the invitation of the President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko.

On July 21, the media reported that the explosion was "accurately and competently" to defeat only the one who would sit in the driver's seat. The next day, information appeared that a woman was laid a bomb in the car of Sheremet , and her accomplice was a man.

In February, Avakov said that the results of a preliminary investigation indicate that the death of Sheremet is " a contracted murder carefully prepared by a group ." “The investigation does not exclude the version of the political murder, the order for which came from Russia,” the minister emphasized.

Avakov, referring to the secret of the investigation, did not reveal the details. Nevertheless, he brought a number of arguments in favor of the "Russian version". In particular, when monitoring telephone formations in the area of ​​the crime scene in the interval close to the time of its commission, an unusually large number of calls to Russian numbers were recorded. Avakov also noted that Sheremet in his publications raised the topic of recruitment of Russian FSB of Ukrainian citizens to conduct "sabotage and location" in Ukraine.

The minister also indicated that Sheremet was a friend of the murdered Russian politician Boris Nemtsov. Shortly before his death, the journalist agreed to participate in the work on the film about Nemtsov.

On May 10, the film "Murder of Paul" Slidstvo.info and the Center for the Study of Corruption and Organized Crime (OCCRP) on the investigation of the murder of Sheremet was published . The film, in particular, claims that the former or current SBU employee Igor Ustimenko was conducting the journalist in the night before the crime. He was present near the house of Sheremet for at least a few hours at night, when explosives were laid under the journalist’s car. He was recorded by several surveillance cameras in the area where Sheremet lived. Ustimenko himself refused to comment on his ties with the SBU, and also could not specifically answer what he did on the night of the murder of Sheremet near his house.

The next day, the SBU spokesman Elena Gitlyanskaya said thatUstimenko was dismissed from the special services in April 2014. “If the journalists turned to us with a request about Mr. Ustimenko not after the program was released on the air, but it may not have been something to talk about,” Nazi wrote on her Facebook page.