Ukraine’s chief prosecutor on Monday blamed a Russian crime lord linked to Russia’s security agency for the killing of renegade Russian lawmaker Denis Voronenkov.
Prosecutor General Yuriy Lutsenko said Voronenkov was gunned down in March on orders from Vladimir Tyurin, a former partner of Voronenkov’s wife, Maria Maksakova. Lutsenko said Tyurin, who had ties with Russia’s Federal Security Service, or FSB, commissioned several Ukrainians for the hit job.
Voronenkov, who had toed the Kremlin line while serving as a Russian lawmaker but turned a Kremlin critic after his move to Ukraine last year, was shot dead near the entrance to …read more
Source: Voice of America