Kuchma to be questioned over reporter’s death

FORMER Ukrainian president Leonid Kuchma is expected to be questioned this week over the grisly murder of an opposition reporter, after his former interior minister implicated in the killing was found dead in what police have called a suicide.

The former president cut short a vacation in the Czech Republic to return to Kiev on Saturday, a day after his one-time interior minister Yury Kravchenko was found dead just hours before he was due to answer prosecutors’ questions over the 2000 killing of investigative reporter Heorhiy Gongadze.

The journalist’s gruesome death became a symbol of the rampant corruption within Mr Kuchma’s regime.