- Georgy Kirpa, the Ukrainian Transport Minister, was found
dead in his country-house on the outskirts of Kiev on December 27th. The
reason of the minister's death is not known, although the police believe
that Kirpa was one of the most important figures in Viktor Yanukovich's
election campaign. He supposedly knew, where the money was coming from.
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- Officials of the Ukrainian Transport Ministry knew about
the money, which was assigned for the construction of a large bridge in
Kiev. The money was transferred, but the construction did not start - the
funds were supposedly spent on Viktor Yanukovich's election campaign, the
Vremya Novostei newspaper wrote.
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- It was Georgy Kirpa, who organized a trip of Donetsk
miners to Kiev - the trip was timed to the second election round. Train
conductor Oksana said that the train car was filled with boxes of vodka
for miners: "Someone intentionally wanted to make them drink,"
said she. The workers said in their turn that each of them had been paid
200 hryvnas (a little less than $40) for their trip to Kiev.
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- Ivan Sali, a high-ranking official from the Transport
Ministry said that Georgy Kirpa's death could be connected with the embezzlement
of state funds, which Kirpa was in charge of. Deputy Yuri Lutsenko stated
yesterday that Georgy Kirpa wired $130 million of advance payment for the
construction of the bridge across the Dnepr River. It was also said that
Kirpa and Prime Minister Yanukovich, fraudulently organized a private railway
company.
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- According to the official version, Georgy Kirpa committed
suicide. Police officers found a gun near the minister's body in his country
house. It is also known that the minister's wife left the house several
hours before the crime, and the official talked to an unknown person on
the telephone. Investigators do not exclude that Georgy Kirpa has been
assassinated. It is worth mentioning that a priest visited the minister's
country-house for the burial service, although the Orthodox religion bans
such services for suicides.
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- Nikolai Tomenko, a deputy of the Ukrainian parliament
said that such incidents may repeat in the future "when those aware
of the government's illegal activities, the presidential election fraud
in particular, suddenly disappear." Tomenko is certain that the minister
has been murdered: "I think that Kirpa as a witness could have told
the authorities a lot," the deputy said.
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- http://english.pravda.ru/accidents/21/96/383/14777_kirpa.html
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