KIEV, March 4 (Xinhuanet) -- Ukraine's ex-president Leonid Kuchma defended on Friday his "innocence" of the killing of a well-known journalist over four years ago, after his former interior ministerYury Kravchenko was found dead earlier in the day, Ukrainian TV reported. "I am not responsible for this tragedy," he told reporters in the Czech resort city of Karlovy Vary. "Before God, before the people and my conscience, I am innocent." Kuchma has cut short his vacation in the Czech Republic and will return home on Saturday cheap ugg boots, Ukraine's 1+1 television said. He said he "couldn't believe that Kravchenko had done that (suicide)." The former president will return to Ukraine on Saturday. Kravchenko, who served as Kuchma's interior minister from 1995 to 2001, had been expected to go to the Prosecutor General's Office on Friday morning for questioning related to the investigation of the 2000 murder of journalist Georgy Gongadze. Instead, He was found dead at his country home early Friday. A preliminary report suggested Kravchenko committed suicide, Interfax-Ukraine news agency cited law enforcement sources as saying. On a recording said to have been made by a former bodyguard of Kuchma discount moncler sale, Kravchenko allegedly can be heard making comments on Gongadze's disappearance in September 2000. Ukraine's Segodnya newspaper earlier reported that Kravchenko had been under official surveillance since December 2004, being banned from leaving Ukraine. Gongadze, an Internet journalist who worked for Ukrainska Pravda daily and wrote about high-level corruption, was reported missing since September 2000, and his decapitated body was found months later buried in a forest outside the capital. His death sparked months of protests against former President Kuchma, who the opposition alleged was involved in the killing. Kuchma repeatedly denied the allegations and said the tape recording was forged. Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko, who was sworn in in January Canada Goose outlet italia, had pledged to solve the case Christian louboutin scarpe, calling it his government's moral duty. Yushchenko said Tuesday murderers of the journalist had been arrested but the mastermind behind the killing was still at large. He said the former authorities not only lacked the political will to solve the murder MBT Nuevos zapatosde mayo, but covered it up. On Wednesday Coach taschen, Ukraine's Prosecutor General Svyatoslav Piskun said Wednesday the suspected killers included two colonels and a police officer: two of them are in custody and another is under orders not to leave Kiev. The fourth suspect is a former senior police official, who is wanted on an international warrant. But Piskun refused to name the suspected mastermind behind the slaying, whom he said had been identified. EnditemTopics related articles：

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