KIEV (Reuters) - A former Ukrainian police officer was jailed for life on Tuesday for the 2000 murder of an opposition journalist, but he implied in court that other officials including ex-President Leonid Kuchma were equally guilty of the crime.
Police General Oleksiy Pukach is the fourth person to be sentenced over the grisly murder of Georgiy Gongadze, a 31-year-old campaigning editor who wrote of political corruption and crime at a time when the authorities in the former Soviet republic kept a tight rein on the media.
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