Lutsenko’s Prosecutor General’s Office helped hide one of Handziuk’s killers, activists say

Former deputy aide Oleksii Levin, suspected of killing activist Kateryna Handziuk, said during interrogation that in the summer of 2019, the Prosecutor General's Office found him in the Bulgarian city of Varna and warned him of the danger.

Activists of the "Who ordered a hit on Katia Handziuk?" public initiative reported this on Facebook.

It is known that during Levin's interrogation on August 4 in the Dnipro court, he said that "negotiators" from the Prosecutor General's Office had been sent to him, who had warned him that it was dangerous to stay in Varna.

"I came home, put the car in half a block. As I was coming into the house, 'these people' from Trepak called me and told me to leave," he said.

In turn, activists called for attention to the fact that in the summer of 2019, Victor Trepak didn't work in the Prosecutor General's Office and took the position of Deputy Prosecutor General only in October of that year. Instead, in the summer of 2019, Yurii Lutsenko remained the Prosecutor General.

"His (Lutsenko's – ed.) 'negotiator' was most likely not Trepak, but the chief of the department of pretrial investigation procedural management of GPU, the member of a group of prosecutors in Handziuk's case, Volodymyr Parovyi and his chief, Lutsenko's big friend, Volodymyr Bedrykovskyi," activists consider.

Friends and relatives of Kateryna Handziuk emphasize that it was Parovyi who lightened the criminal article for Manher and Levin, citing the fact that if they wanted to kill Katia, they would shoot, not pour acid on her. He also said that "no expert" would conclude that 1 liter of acid spilled on Handziuk could lead to death.

Therefore, activists conclude that in the summer of 2019, the Prosecutor General's Office of Yurii Lutsenko found Levin in Varna. They warned him that it was dangerous for him to return to Ukraine, gave him "guarantees," as Levin himself says, and he fled to Burgas, where he was detained six months later with the new prosecutor general.

"The network of those involved in Katia Handziuk's murder is not limited to the perpetrators, organizers, and customers. Katia was killed not only by Manher, Ryschuk, and Hordeiev. Not only Levin, Pavlovskyi, and Torbin helped them organize this murder, but Hrabchuk, Vasianoych, Horbunov, and Vyshnevskyi," public activists declared.