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The Ukrainian Prosecutor General's Office is looking into the possibility of former President Leonid Kuchma's involvement in the murder of businessman and MP Evhen Shcherban in 1996, First Deputy Prosecutor General Renat Kuzmin told Forbes Ukraine, according to the publication's website on Monday.

Shcherban, the chief of the Aton financial corporation and a deputy of the Supreme Rada, was shot dead at Donetsk International Airport in November 1996. His wife and an airport employee were also killed.

The Prosecutor General’s Office claims that the murder was ordered by former prime ministers Tymoshenko and Lazarenko.

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