16:42 11.02.2013

Police checking Mazurok's possible involvement in other crimes

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Police checking Mazurok's possible involvement in other crimes

The police are continuing to check the possible involvement of Yaroslav Mazurok in other crimes and investigating all of the facts of the shooting at Kyiv-based Karavan shopping mall, in which three security guards were killed in the fall of 2012.

"The investigators have collected enough materials and evidence to say that it was Mazurok who committed the crime at the Karavan shopping mall, and that they have found Mazurok's corpse. There is no doubt about it," Deputy Head of the Main Investigatory Department of the Interior Ministry of Ukraine in Kyiv Oleksandr Honcharov told a press conference in Kyiv on Monday.

At the same time, he noted that the police are continuing to investigate the case.

"The case has not been closed yet. We're checking whether Mazurok could be involved in other crimes," Honcharov said.

He added that the investigators still have to find accomplices to the crime, the place where Mazurok bought the gun and some other details. The police are yet to find answers to many question, Honcharov said.

As reported, on September 26, 2012, a robber shot dead three employees of a private security firm and seriously wounded another one in the Karavan shopping mall in Kyiv. The attacker fled the scene.

On October 5, 2012, Ukrainian Interior Minister Vitaliy Zakharchenko stated that the killer of three security guards from the Karavan shopping mall in Kyiv was Yaroslav Mazurok, a native of Lviv region, born in 1974, who previously worked at private security firms.

The body of a man resembling Yaroslav Mazurok was found in Kyiv on November 7, 2012.

According to the Interior Ministry, law enforcers found in a pocket of the deceased man the passport of Yaroslav Mazurok, a technical certificate for a Jawa motorbike, as well as Mazurok's driver's license and identification certificate. The police also found a gun with one spent cartridge in the cylinder.

On November 15, 2012, DNA examination confirmed that it was Yaroslav Mazurok's body that was found not far from Syrets Park in Kyiv.

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