The brutal murder of journalist Veranika Charkasava remains unsolved eight years later.
The investigation into the death of journalist Veranika Charkasava has been suspended, but investigative activities continue, Yahor Livaj, a spokesman for the Investigative Committee of Belarus informed.
“Since its establishment at the beginning of this year, the Investigative Committee has been in charge of the case,” Livaj said. “The investigation has been suspended because the people responsible for the crime remain unknown. But this doesn't mean we are doing nothing to find them.”
Veranika Charkasava was found dead with more than 40 stab wounds in her apartment in Minsk on October 20, 2004. She was a staff writer with the newspaper Salidarnasc at that time.
While many journalists link the killing to her reporting, investigators with the Minsk City Prosecutor's Office appeared to ignore work-related motives for the reporter's killing and focused on her relatives as suspects.
Charkasava's son, now 22, and elderly stepfather were identified as major suspects in the murder but were cleared in the case in 2005.
Journalists insist that 99 percent of domestic crimes are solved within days and the murder is likely to have been linked to the reporter's work.
The Agency of Investigative Journalism, a group established at the Belarusian Association of Journalists, suggested that Charkasava had been murdered as part of a war between two gangs seeking control over a winery in Homiel. In an article headlined “The Price of Life,” the group theorized that the reporter could have information, which, if made public, would harm the interests of one of the gangs, which could be a motive for the murder.
Earlier, several reporters insisted that the murder may be linked to the journalist's work to unearth facts about Belarus' alleged arms sales to the Saddam Hussein regime.
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