Witness: Lazarenko ordered Shcherban's killing in Tymoshenko's interests
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Former Ukrainian Prime Minister Pavlo Lazarenko ordered the killing of businessmen Oleksandr Momot and Yevhen Shcherban in the interests of Yulia Tymoshenko.
KYIV, February 14 /UKRINFORM/. Former Ukrainian Prime Minister Pavlo Lazarenko ordered the killing of businessmen Oleksandr Momot and Yevhen Shcherban in the interests of former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko.
A witness in the case on Shcherban's murder, Ihor Maryinkov, said this at a meeting of the Pechersky District Court in Kyiv on Thursday
"There was an order from Lazarenko in the interests of Tymoshenko. There was an order [to kill] Momot and Shcherban. I learned about it in August 1997, when Riabin [a member of the criminal gang of Kushnir that organized Shcherban's murder] underwent treatment in Kyiv," the witness said.
