Ex-President Questioned in Journalist’s Slaying
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From Times Wire Reports
Former President Leonid D. Kuchma was questioned in connection with the 2000 slaying of a journalist who wrote about top-level corruption in his government.
Prosecutors refused to release details about what Kuchma told them but said he had been questioned as a witness.
Kuchma has denied accusations that he gave the order that led to journalist Georgi Gongadze’s abduction. The journalist’s decapitated body was found several days later in a forest outside Kiev.
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