The bodyguard of the president's son Andriy Yushchenko may be involved in the wounding of Boryspil inter-district prosecutor Oleksandr Kuzovkin.
This is reported on Monday by the newspaper "Sehodnya" and the website "Obkom".
According to "Sehodnya", the prosecutor's car was "cut off" by a BMW on Friday, and a "road showdown" began. "Suddenly" a man jumped out of the BMW and shot the prosecutor in the leg with a rubber bullet (hit him in the thigh)," the newspaper writes.
After that, the BMW disappeared from the scene of the crime.
When the prosecutor gave the police the car's license plate number, they "lost face." "Supposedly they knew that the president's son had connections to this car, and his bodyguard could have been the shooter."
At the same time, "Sehodnya" notes that they have no evidence. The newspaper also suggests that the BMW, which may have previously been registered to Andriy's mother Svitlana Yushchenko, could now be driven by his bodyguard.
"Sehodnya," also citing its own information, claims that SBU chief Ihor Drizhchany met with Kuzovkin after the accident. The SBU did not confirm this information to the publication.
Kuzovkin himself, in a conversation with a "Sehodnya" correspondent, called the information about the accident "a lie."
According to "Obkom," the prosecutor, after getting out of his car following the accident, "saw and recognized the son of the President of Ukraine."
"The prosecutor introduced himself, stated his position, and remarked to Andriy Yushchenko about his violation of traffic rules and creation of an emergency situation on the road. In response to the remark, Andriy Yushchenko rudely promised the prosecutor that tomorrow he would be sitting in prison, where one of the deputy prosecutor generals would personally 'lower' him," writes Obkom.
"The altercation between the prosecutor and the president's son ended with Andriy Yushchenko hitting the prosecutor in the face twice, and the person accompanying Andriy Yushchenko shooting the prosecutor with a pistol, shooting him through the thigh," the publication notes.
After that, according to "Obkom's" version, Andriy Yushchenko and his companion "got into the car and left the scene, leaving prosecutor Kuzovkin lying on the road near the vehicle."