Police studying new evidence in Sheremet case

"In December 2020, investigators of the National Police, with the assistance of the Foreign Intelligence Service of Ukraine, received some information, which is of interest in the investigation into the car-bomb killing of journalist Pavlo Sheremet in 2016. The documents and audio recordings, the latest of which date back to 2012, have already been made available to the investigation and are of interest from the point of view of identifying the perpetrators of the crime," the statement reads.

According to the statement, fragments of information obtained by National Police investigators have been published on the Internet, with unidentified persons discussing in an audio recording the murder of Sheremet, in particular, the option of poisoning him with the use of toxic substances or killing him in a bomb blast.

"At the moment, the investigation of the National Police has received permission to conduct investigative actions in a European country. In addition, the person in charge of the transferred information has been invited to carry out the necessary investigative actions," the statement reads.

The National Police recalled that earlier the case against the perpetrators of Sheremet's killing had been sent to court, and a separate criminal case had been opened against those who ordered the crime.

The National Police also called on Ukrainian citizens and foreigners to contact the police if they know anything about the order to kill Sheremet.

Earlier media reports said that back in 2012, the Belarusian special services, on the orders of Alexander Lukashenko, discussed the possibility of killing Sheremet using an explosive, and the murder was committed in 2016.

Sheremet was killed in a car explosion in Kyiv on July 20, 2016.

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