Ex-Ukraine Official Linked to Murder Inquiry Is Found Dead
Ukraine’s former interior minister, a man suspected of involvement in the abduction and murder of a prominent journalist in 2000, died this morning in a cottage outside the country’s capital, Kiev, in what officials called a suicide. Yuri F. Kravchenko, who as interior minister ordered his agents to trail the journalist, Georgy Gongadze, shot himself in the head only hours before he was supposed to meet with prosecutors to be questioned for the first time in the case today, the officials said. Later reports said he suffered two gunshot wounds.Full Story