Numbers belong to the front car of Yaroslavsky's cortege, says a source of journalists «UP».
On the night of February 10, on the Chuguev-Martove highway, a car hit a man to death, and license plates from the motorcade of businessman Alexander Yaroslavsky were found at the scene of the accident, reports the Chronicle.info with reference to Ukrainska Pravda.
«A little after midnight, the police received a call that a man had been shot down on the Chuguev-Martovoye highway. This happened closer to March. A middle-aged man died. There was no one around. Numbers 0018» were found on the spot.
According to the interlocutor of the UP, such numbers belong to the front car of Yaroslavsky's cortege. The UP source also noted that Yaroslavsky often drives a car himself.
The interlocutors of the UP also added that later a man called the police, who said that he had become a participant in an accident near Martovoy, and that he would come to the regional department to testify.
As of 10 am, this man had not come to the police yet. Later, another interlocutor said that law enforcement officers were already interrogating the driver as of 12:00.
According to the sources of the UP, there are witnesses who saw Yaroslavsky's motorcade leaving Kharkov in the evening (Yaroslavsky works in Kharkov and lives in March — ed.).
The police of the Kharkiv region could not confirm or deny the information about a fatal accident near Martove. Olena Barannik, a spokeswoman for the Kharkiv region police, promised to find out if the fatal accident took place near Martovoy late in the evening of February 9 or on the night of February 10 and provide this information later.
At the same time, a message appeared on the police website a little later that on the highway «Kyiv-Kharkov-Dovzhansky» found the body of an unknown man with bodily injuries and that law enforcement officers are establishing the identity and circumstances of the death of the pedestrian.
Literally, the police: «It was previously established that on February 9 at about 22:55 an unidentified car, moving from the city of Chuguev in the direction of Kharkov, hit a pedestrian — a man who looked 30-40 years old. The body of the deceased was sent to the morgue. His identity, as well as the identity of the attacker, are being established».
On this fact, criminal proceedings were initiated under part 3 of Art. 2 tbsp. 286 (violation of traffic safety rules or the operation of transport by persons driving vehicles) of the Criminal Code.