The defense lawyer
for Russian military serviceman Alexander Alexandrov, Yuriy Hrabovsky, has been
found killed; his suspected murderers have been apprehended, the Ukrainian
National Bar Association has said.
"We have heard the tragic news today. Lawyer Yuriy Hrabovsky has
been found murdered. The suspects have been detained, and we hope that everyone
involved in the killing of our colleague will be punished," the Ukrainian
National Bar Association wrote on Facebook on Friday.
As reported earlier, Kyiv's Holosiyivsky District Court on March 9
rescheduled hearings in a criminal case against two Russian special security force
officers Yevgeny Yerofeyev and Alexander Alexandrov, due to absence of lawyer
Hrabovsky. The whereabouts of Hrabovsky, born in 1972, have not been known to
police since March 5, 2016, Odesa regional police spokeswoman Darya Yarchuk
said.
On March 20, Ukrainian Deputy Prosecutor General and chief military
prosecutor Anatoliy Matios announced the arrest of a suspect in organizing the
lawyer's disappearance. He said the operation had been planned by "former
Ukrainians" and Russian intelligence agencies "for creating a
picture" at the final stage of the hearings in the case against the two
Russians.
The following day, Matios said there was information that foreign
intelligence agencies had been plotting to kill Yerofeyev and Alexandrov in
central Kyiv, and that the decision to eliminate them was made because
kidnapping them did not appear possible to the foreign intelligence agencies.
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