Police consider two motives for murder of businessman and politician Korobchynsky

The police are investigating two main motives for the murder of Oleksandr Korobchynsky, a businessman and leader of Ukraine's Party of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs: his commercial activities and personal relations.

The first deputy head of the main department of the Interior Ministry in Odesa region, Oleksiy Khlivny, said at a briefing in Odesa on Thursday that a killer fired twelve 9 mm bullets at Korobchynsky from a foreign-made gun. The shots were fired from a distance of one meter.

The gun was not found at the crime scene.

Khlivny noted that Korobchynsky was shot at about 1830, and doctors recorded his death at 1915.

A criminal case on the murder was opened under Article 115 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine (premeditated murder). An investigation is being carried out.

As reported, Korobchynsky, who recently ran for the office of Odesa mayor, was killed in an attack in the center of Odesa not far from the Odesa Opera House late on Wednesday. Korobchynsky died in a private hospital in Odesa while undergoing emergency surgery.

Korobchynsky was born in Kyiv in 1969. He was a deputy of the Odesa legislature between 2002 and 2010. He was elected president of the Intostroi industrial-construction group in 2003. In 2009 he became leader of the Party of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs. He ran for the office of Odesa mayor in 2010, gaining the third largest number of votes. He is survived by his wife, and four children aged from eight to 23.