Witness Kyrychenko says Tymoshenko ordered Scherban murder
Petro Kyrychenko, a witness in the criminal case on the murder of Ukrainian parliamentarian Yevhen Scherban, has said that former Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko ordered the murder of Scherban in 1996.
"I know that Tymoshenko and [former Ukrainian Prime Minister Pavlo] Lazarenko ordered the murder, as [Oleksandr] Milchenko (a crime boss also known by the nickname Matros (the Sailor)) told me this," Kyrychenko said during a questioning via a video linkup, when asked who had ordered the killing of Scherban and who told him that.
Asked to specify who initiated the murder, Kyrychenko said: "It's hard to say. Most likely it was Tymoshenko."