The head of a parliament corruption committee alleged on Friday that one of the so-called oligarchic groups in Parliament apportioned more than $15 million to bribe international experts analyzing evidence in the case of missing journalist Georgy Gongadze, UNIAN reported.
According to Yuri Karmazin, head of the parliamentary committee on issues of fighting corruption and organized crime, many oligarchic groups do not want the results of an independent analysis of Gongadze-affair evidence published.
Karmazin added that that was especially the case in the event that a body found outside of Kyiv turns out to be Gongadze’s, and recordings of voices turn out to be those of high officials implicated in Gongadze’s disappearance, Liga online reported.
Georgy Gongadze disappeared on Sept. 16 on his way home from work. In mid-November, a body was found in a forest just outside Kyiv widely believed to belong to the missing journalist.
News wires reported this week that tissue samples from the corpse have been delivered to foreign experts for an independent analysis.
In late November, Socialist Party leader Oleksandr Moroz revealed audio tapes that he said linked President Leonid Kuchma and several of his top officials to Gongadze’s disappearance. The recordings were also recently submitted for independent examination by foreign experts.
The independent analyses of both the biological tissues and the audio tapes come after thousands of anti-Kuchma protesters marched in Kyiv last week demanding an independent investigation into the Gongadze case, among other things.
