Murder of a Businessman and Deputy’s Child in Kyiv. Well-Known Journalist Published a Shocking Version

Murder of a businessman and deputy’s child in Kyiv. Well-known journalist published a shocking version

As is known, 1 December, in central Kyiv, near the restaurant “Mario,” a tragedy occurred in which a three-year-old child was killed. The car of a deputy of the Kyiv regional council, Donetsk businessman Vyacheslav Sobolev, was shot at. Sobolev and his wife survived, but their little child died. Journalist and blogger Volodymyr Boyko posted shocking details about the circumstances of this attack on his Facebook page. In particular, Boyko claims that the attempted murder of Sobolev may have been ordered by former Deputy Chair of the Higher Commercial Court, Artur Yemelyanov, “750 thousand dollars — that was the price of the child’s life: that is the sum Sobolev and former Deputy Chair of the Higher Commercial Court of Ukraine, also ‘Donetsk,’ Artur Yemelyanov, failed to split,” Boyko writes. “That Sobolev wouldn’t live long I realized 15 November 2019 year, when o 13:30 I saw Yemelyanov in a black Toyota Land Cruiser 200 with license plate AA 0075 (sorry, but I couldn’t make out the last two letters), parked near the Prosecutor General’s Office of Ukraine. The reason I was watching Mr. Yemelyanov was information that he had agreed with First Deputy Prosecutor General Vitaliy Kasko to close the criminal proceedings that the PGU was investigating in connection with the abduction in Slovakia of businessman Maksym Slutskiy and the attempted abduction of businessman Vladyslav Izraelyt. As the Austrian law enforcement authorities established during covert investigative actions, the customer of the crime is Artur Yemelyanov.” The journalist writes that based on information from the Austrian police the Prosecutor General’s Office of Ukraine 29 August 2018 year registered criminal proceeding No.42018000000002122, which was fully investigated by the prosecutors themselves (although formally it was accounted for by the Main Investigation Department of the National Police). “Later the PGU learned that Yemelyanov, trying to get ahead of events, agreed with the head of the investigation department of the Main Directorate of the National Police in Kyiv region, where at Yemelyanov’s request criminal proceeding No.12018110200004900 from 14.08.22018 was registered — but only on the fact, allegedly, of extortion of money from Yemelyanov. The Prosecutor General’s Office took these proceedings from the regional police and combined them with the ‘prosecutor’s’ case, assigning the combined proceeding number 12018110200004900, since it appeared in the Unified Register of Pre-Trial Investigations a few days earlier,” Boyko claims. He also explained that he describes these “bureaucratic subtleties” in such detail to clarify what exactly Kasko took money from Yemelyanov for: during their meeting they agreed that Kasko would send the combined case from the Prosecutor General’s Office to the Main Directorate of the National Police in Kyiv region, where the proceeding that was investigating the abduction of Slutskiy and the attempted abduction of Izraelyt would be closed. According to Boyko, 15 November 2019 year Yemelyanov visited the Prosecutor General’s Office, and already on 18 November the PGU received a letter signed by the head of the Main Investigation Department of the National Police of Ukraine, Maksym Tsutskiridze, asking to transfer the ‘Yemelyanov case’ to the Kyiv region police. “This — meaning the certainty that the criminal proceedings investigating the abduction of Maksym Slutskiy and the attempted abduction of Vladyslav Izraelyt would be closed — untied Yemelyanov’s hands, and confident in his impunity he began to deal with his ‘Donetsk’ enemies. But there is a nuance that, apparently, Artur Stanislavovych did not know: Kasko still had not found the case materials and had not transferred them to the Kyiv region police ‘for burial,’ although he was searching thoroughly and even created a scandal with subordinates. The thing is, after I learned that Kasko took money from Yemelyanov, the materials of that case disappeared from the Prosecutor General’s Office of Ukraine and ended up with me. It went like this — I walk into the restaurant “Solomianska Brovarnia,” where I usually find flash drives with secret and top-secret documents, and I couldn’t believe my eyes: someone left for me the materials of criminal proceeding No.12018110200004900 from 14.08.2018 — all 6 volumes. And now I offer Vitaliy Kasko to buy this case from me to work off the bribe he received from Yemelyanov. But not for money. I am only interested in stopping the extortion from parachute athletes. For this, Kasko only needs to personally take control of the investigation of the criminal proceeding against former Minister of Youth and Sports Ihor Zhdanov, and also send to Lukyanivska pretrial detention facility the minister’s ally who actually helped Zhdanov organize the corruption schemes — Kyiv prosecutor Roman Hovda. And, a couple of times summon current minister Volodymyr Borodyansky for questioning and explain to him that he finally needs to carry out numerous court decisions and cancel the ‘Rules for Sports Competitions in Parachute Sport.’ And then, with a light heart... Meanwhile, until this is done, I will publish 5 pages from the ‘Yemelyanov case’ every other day, alternating the story about the antics of ex-judge Yemelyanov with the publication of materials of covert investigative actions regarding Hovda’s boyfriend Yevheniy Bambizov. Let’s see who will first take their own life — Kasko or Hovda,” the journalist recounted details of the case. He also published a document: a letter from the head of the Main Investigation Department of the National Police of Ukraine, Maksym Tsutskiridze, requesting that the ‘Yemelyanov case’ be sent to the Kyiv region police. “This letter cost the life of 3-year-old son of Vyacheslav Sobolev,” Boyko added.