Lesia Gongadze wants private experts to examine the skull

Lesia Gongadze, mother of the slain Ukrainian journalist Georgy Gongadze, wants private experts to examine the skull unearthed where ex-General Oleksii Pukach said it would be found, she said in an interview with Deutcshe Welle Radio. She added that she has additional biological material for such investigation and that she will demand samples of fragments currently in possession of that General Prosecutor's Office:

"I have biological material that I brought from Tbilisi. I mean Giya's baby teeth. Doubtlessly this will produce a hundred percent result. I will do it privately, for myself, and I will ask for bones." She is not sure who will do the expert examination, assuming that few will be willing to do it. Lesia Gongadze also said she is afraid this examination will finally dot the i's and pose a threat to her life, but this is the only way to bury her son in accordance with the Christian tradition. She is skeptical about the official investigation and legal punishment for those who ordered her son's assassination.

Valentyna Telychenko, Myroslava Gongadze's lawyer, said in an interview with Segodnia that the names of those who ordered it were revealed by Oleksii Pukach but were left out of the transcripts of interrogation.

Telychenko believes they will try to send the Gongadze murder case to court with only one defendant, Pukach. She is getting prepared to meet this contingency: "I'm getting my arguments ready for applying for additional investigation. But whether the court grants it is anyone's guess." The lawyer predicts that Pukach will receive 20 or more likely 15 years "because even now I'm being told that he is the same perpetrator as the others already serving their 12 and 13 years, and that this will close the case."