Ukraine's ex-minister of foreign affairs detained on suspicion of murder

17:46, 25.03.2020

Ukraine’s former minister of foreign affairs, Leonid Kozhara, has been detained on suspicion of murder. “Former Ukrainian Foreign Minister Leonid Kozhara has just been detained by police on suspicion of intentionally killing a citizen in his own house,” Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs Anton Gerashchenko said on Facebook on March 25.

According to Gerashchenko, Kozhara is now en route to the courtroom where the judge is to decide on his preventive measure.

As UNIAN news agency reported earlier, ex-head of the Inter TV channel, general director of the Atlantic Group holding Serhiy Starytsky was shot dead in the house of Kozhara and his wife, Maryna Kozerod, in the village of Chaiky outside Kyiv on February 21.

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