Georgiy R. Gongadze A former official from the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine has confessed to involvement in the abduction and murder of journalist Georgiy R. Gongadze in 2000. Olexiy Pukach has also implicated other officials in the crime. Gongadze criticised the government of then-President Leonid Kuchma . On September 16, 2000, he was abducted and his decapitated remains were found two weeks later near Kiev . Kuchma's opponents described the slaying as political, and there was widespread controversy on national and international levels. According to Vassyl Grytsak of the Security Service of Ukraine , Pukach has also offered to take authorities to the location of the journalists head, which was never recovered.
Georgiy R. Gongadze A former official from the of Ukraine has confessed to involvement in the abduction and murder of journalist in 2000. Olexiy Pukach has also implicated other officials in the crime. Gongadze criticised the government of then-President . On September 16, 2000, he was abducted and his decapitated remains were found two weeks later near . Kuchma's opponents described the slaying as political, and there was widespread controversy on national and international levels. According to Vassyl Grytsak of the , Pukach has also offered to take authorities to the location of the journalists head, which was never recovered.
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Security Service of Ukraine