The head of the Kherson Regional Council will appear in court in the case of Gandzyuk

Chairman and former assistant to the deputy of the Kherson Regional Council of Ukraine Vladislav Manger will answer in court on charges of involvement in the order and organization of the murder of the assistant mayor of Kherson Ekaterina Gandzyuk at the end of July 2018. According to the website of the prosecutor general's office on July 28, prosecutors have already sent an indictment against Manger to the court. See also: SBU officers detained the head of the Kherson Regional Council by the Pre-trial Investigation established that the chairman of the Kherson Regional Council and a citizen extradited to Ukraine from Bulgaria organized a group of people to commit intentional grievous bodily harm in a way that has a nature of special torment, which led to the death of the victim Ekaterina Gandzyuk, the report said. It is clarified that charges were brought under part 3 of Art. 27, part 2 of Art. 28, part 2 of Art. 121 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine. Also on the topic: The verdict on the attackers of the Kherson official Gandzyuk entered into force of the GPU. As reported by the news agency, on July 31, 2018, Ekaterina Gandzyuk was attacked and poured with acid. She later died in the hospital. On suspicion of attacking the assistant mayor, a number of suspects were detained. In August 2019, the verdict of the Pokrovsky court of the Dnipropetrovsk region of Ukraine against the perpetrators of the murder of a Kherson official entered into force. Five people who were suspected of committing a crime pleaded guilty, and made a deal with the investigation. As a result, they received from three to 6.6 years in prison. In mid-June 2020, the head of the local regional council Vladislav Manger was detained on suspicion of involvement in this crime.