Investigation into Sheremet case lacks priority version, asks for help

The investigation into murder of Pavel Sheremet, the journalist of Ukrayinska Pravda online newspaper, has four versions of the crime.

Andriy Shevchenko, the head of prosecutors’ group at the Prosecutor General’s Office, and Dmytro Holovin, the head of the Criminal Investigation Department, announced this at the briefing on July 4, Ukrayinska Pravda online newspaper reports.

“We are considering four versions – personal hostility to the victim, his professional journalistic activity, destabilization in Kyiv because of the death of prominent journalist and possible accidental death, because it was Olena Prytula’s car. We follow up four versions and do not give preference to any of them,” Holovin said.

According to officials, there is a version that the two suspects could act together with accomplices.

Shevchenko said that almost 500 witnesses were interviewed, nearly 150 CCTV cameras were picked and the investigation has more than 140 terabytes of information.

The police also established suspects’ signs: the suspected man is 168—175 cm tall and had a ‘Spanish’ beard, and his accomplice is 5 cm shorter.

As Holovin noted, the suspects did not hide their faces. According to him it means that they either were not local or that they were not afraid of consequences of their crime.

Shevchenko also said that FBI experts in the USA laboratories continued to study the qualitative composition of the explosive device that had killed journalist Pavel Sheremet.

“The bomb was not fixed, that means it was an army-issued explosive device, but a home-made one,” the head of prosecutors’ group said.

As reported, journalist Pavel Sheremet was killed in a car blast in the morning of July 20. The car belonged to owner of Ukrayinska Pravda online newspaper Olena Prytula.