Holosiyivsky District Court of Kyiv has extended for 60 days a preventive measure in the form of custody without a bail option for two suspects in the killing of former Russian State Duma deputy Denis Voronenkov.
The press service of the Kyiv Prosecutor’s Office reported on Facebook on February 13, that this decision had been taken at the request of the city’s prosecutor’s office.
The prosecutor’s office recalled that a 36-year-old resident of Pavlohrad in Dnipropetrovsk region (who was acting as a driver), as well as his accomplice, a 39-year-old native of Kherson region who took part in organizing the crime and directly spied Voronenkov, was served with a notice of suspicion under clause 12, Part 2, Article 115 (premeditated murder committed by a group of persons) of the Criminal Code of Ukraine.
According to earlier reports, Voronenkov was killed in central Kyiv on March 23, 2017. The assassin, Pavlo Parshov, was wounded by the former deputy’s security guard and later died at a hospital.
Voronenkov’s assassin had an accomplice, Yaroslav Levenets, who has been wanted for economic crimes since 2012. Yaroslav Tarasenko is also a suspect in the crime. He was detained on July 16.
In October 2017, Ukrainian Prosecutor General Yuriy Lutsenko said that two persons involved in the case – Oleksandr Los and Yaroslav Tarasenko – had been arrested and are in jail; and two more are on the wanted list, particularly Yaroslav Levenets and Yuriy Vasylenko, the leader of a criminal group.
He also said that Voronenkov’s murder had been ordered by a criminal boss controlled by the Russian Federal Security Bureau (FSB), Vladimir Tyurin, who is also the former common-law partner of Voronkov’s widow Maria Maksakova.
