His body was found with a gunshot wound to the head on December 27 in the summer house of a country home in the settlement of Bortnychi, near Kyiv.
This is reported by the press service of the Prosecutor General's Office.
According to its staff, immediately after Kirpa's body was found by one of his guards and the relevant structures were notified, besides the police and Interior Ministry leadership, Ukraine's Prosecutor General Sviatoslav Piskun and his deputy Viktor Shokin arrived at the scene.
According to the press service, the criminal case was opened under Article 120 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine – "incitement to suicide."
In addition, as UNIAN learned from informed sources, surveillance cameras located in the house and on the grounds of the estate recorded that Kirpa entered the house alone.
A cartridge case and a 5.45 mm caliber bullet from an eight-shot PSM pistol were found at the scene. Other details are not yet being reported.
On December 27, Kirpa was found dead at a dacha in Bortnychi in the Kyiv region. The body was discovered at around 17:40.
It became known that at approximately 15:00 Kirpa saw his wife off from the dacha, and at 16:00 he had a lengthy conversation with an unknown interlocutor by phone. A pistol was also found.
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