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Ukraine’s National Police detained a 54-year-old man suspected of murdering Oleksandr Plakhotnik, the former deputy mayor of Kamianske in Dnipropetrovsk Oblast, law enforcement authorities said on April 2.<\/p>\n

A man’s body<\/a> with a gunshot wound to the head was found by the side of a road in the city of Kamianske<\/a> on March 28.<\/p>\n

Multiple Ukrainian media outlets reported<\/a>, citing law enforcement<\/a> sources, that the victim was Plakhotnik, a member of ex-Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko’s Batkivshchyna (Fatherland) party.<\/p>\n

The suspect was found in Lviv Oblast<\/a>. The 54-year-old man burned the car he was using and fled to another region to hide the traces of the crime, the police said.<\/a><\/p>\n

According to prosecutors<\/a>, the suspect decided to kill the former deputy mayor of Kamianske to avoid paying back a debt.<\/p>\n

The suspect followed Plakhotnik for several months and collected detailed information. He also installed video cameras near the former official’s house to track his movements.<\/p>\n

On the morning of March 28, the suspect arrived at the ex-official’s place of residence and shot him at least 10 times with a firearm, killing the victim on the spot, prosecutors said.<\/p>\n

On April 1, the detainee was charged with premeditated murder for personal gain and illegal handling of weapons.<\/p>\n

Plakhotnik, 49, ran for the Verkhovna Rada<\/a> on the Batkivshchyna party ticket in 2014 and 2019 but was not elected to parliament. He was elected to the Kamianske City Council in 2015 and served until 2020.<\/p>\n

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