Death of aide of Ukraine's top-rank military officer: employee of Commander-in-Chief's office served with notice of suspicion

The State Bureau of Investigation has served a notice of suspicion to a senior aide of the Deputy Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, who presented grenades to the deceased colleague, Hennadii Chastiakov.

Source: State Bureau of Investigation; Prosecutor General’s Office of Ukraine; Ukrainska Pravda’s source in law enforcement agencies

Quote: "It was established that the officer purchased eight universal DM 51A2 hand grenades without the appropriate permit and brought them to his office. Later, he packed six of them in a wooden gift box and put a bottle of strong alcohol in it.

He gave this box to military serviceman Hennadii Chastiakov on his birthday. Thus, by doing so, the officer committed  distribution of explosive devices.

He continued to keep two more grenades in the closet of his office, where law enforcement officers seized them."

Details: UP sources say that the suspect's name is Oleh Tymchenko. 

The officer was served with a notice of suspicion of acquiring, storing, carrying and selling explosive devices without a proper permission (Article 263.1 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine).

The sanction of the article provides imprisonment for up to 7 years.

Previously: The State Bureau of Investigation of Ukraine (SBI) is examining four lines of enquiry of the death of Hennadii Chestiakov, an aide to Valerii Zaluzhnyi, Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. An accident is the priority avenue of investigation.

Background: 

• A 39-year-old soldier was killed on the evening of Monday, 6 November, when a grenade exploded in his home in the village of Chaiky in Kyiv Oblast. His 13-year-old son was taken to hospital with serious injuries. The deceased, Hennadii Chastiakov, was an aide to Valerii Zaluzhnyi, Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. 
• Zaluzhnyi confirmed the death of his aide Chastiakov under tragic circumstances and expressed his condolences to the family.
• The wife of the late Hennadii Chastiakov says that the grenade that exploded in her husband’s hands was in a gift bag that he had brought home. On 6 November, Chastiakov celebrated his birthday.
• A Ukrainska Pravda source in the General Staff noted that Chastiakov had graduated from the Military Academy in Odesa and knew exactly how to handle a grenade.
• Ihor Klymenko, Ukraine’s Minister of Internal Affairs, said that preliminary information from an investigation suggests Major Hennadii Chastiakov pulled the ring from a grenade he had been given, causing the tragic explosion.
• The man who presented the grenades told the investigation that he warned Chastiakov about the authenticity of the grenades.

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