The case of involvement in the murder of Gongadze, Kuchma is closed

Kiev Pechersk court acknowledged that the criminal case against former Ukrainian President Leonid Kuchma for alleged involvement in the murder in 2000 of journalist Georgy Gongadze was filed unreasonably.
Having considered the complaint of lawyers Kuchma, the court found that the tape recordings made ​​by former management employee of State Guard Mykola Melnichenko, and served as one of the main prosecution evidence was obtained illegally.
' The prosecution can not be based on evidence obtained by illegal means, and a person not authorized to carry out operational- search work ' - quoted by Interfax news agency the court decision.
Georgy Gongadze, who led the online newspaper ...
Indications canceled.
Furthermore, according to a court decision can not be considered as evidence and testimony of the former chairman of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine Oleksandr Moroz, as well as others, because they ' were not registered properly ...
In general, the court's decision meets the requirements of Kuchma's lawyer Sergey Ulyanov, who asserted that the prosecution 's second President of Ukraine was started without legal grounds and was conducted in a similar way.
Speaking in court, Ulyanov said that the prosecution can not be based on evidence obtained by illegal means, as well as on assumptions.
The lawyer is convinced that the testimony of three policemen convicted for the murder of Georgy Gongadze, no data implicating Kuchma in the murder of a journalist, and the testimony of Alexander Moroz does not have substantial side.