The Kyiv Holosiyivsky District Court has extended the term of arrest by two months until October 8 to Yaroslav Tarasenko, who is suspected of complicity in former Russian State Duma deputy Denis Voronenkov’s murder, the Kyiv prosecution office’s press service said.
“On August 10, by the Kyiv prosecution office’s motion the Holosiyivsky District Court of the capital has extended a measure of restraint in the form of a term in custody for a 36-year-old resident of the Pavlohrad city, Dnipropetrovsk region, who was detained on suspicion of implication in former Russian State Duma deputy Denis Voronenkov’s murder. The term of arrest was extended until October 8 inclusively under the court judgment,” the statement says.
Tarasenko is suspected of committing a crime pursuant to the article of the Ukrainian Criminal Code dealing with premeditated murder. He was detained on June 16.
Former Russian State Duma parliamentarian Voronenkov was murdered in central Kyiv on March 23. Murderer Pavlo Parshov was injured by the ex-deputy’s security guard and died later in hospital.
Voronenkov’s murderer had an accomplice Yaroslav Levenets, who has been wanted for economic crimes since 2012.
