He confirmed that the investigation established the presence of methadone in the people’s deputy’s blood.
“How methadone got into the people’s deputy’s body is exactly what the investigation is trying to find out. I want to emphasize that when examining the body of the then-deceased MP in his personal belongings, they found cash in the amount of about UAH 10 thousand and $ 800, as well as two samples of catheters with a brown substance. We are also investigating what kind of substance it is, “Yenin said.
Context:
Polyakov died on the night of October 8. Kiev police said that the deputy felt bad in a taxi… Law enforcement officers opened criminal proceedings under Part 1 of Art. 115 (premeditated murder) of the Criminal Code of Ukraine marked “natural death”. October 11 his buried in Chernigov.
According to preliminary data, the cause of Polyakov’s death was acute coronary insufficiency.
Initially the police considered several versions the causes of Polyakov’s death, including poisoning, but law enforcement officials were inclined to believe that the death was natural. On October 9, the people’s deputy from the “Servant of the People” Galina Yanchenko said that Polyakov’s death occurred as a result of alcohol and methadone reactions.
On October 10, the Ministry of Internal Affairs confirmed that forensic experts informed the investigation about the presence of alcohol and methadone in the body of the deceased. “There are two versions – either there was a criminal nature of death, or not. Or he himself used a drug that may have caused death, or he was poisoned. There can be no other way,” – said the head of the communications department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs Artem Shevchenko.
According to the investigation, on the night of Polyakov’s death contacted three people: by taxi driver, Ruslan Dzhambulatov, assistant to the People’s Deputy from the group “For Maybutnє” by Anna Skorokhod; The police reported that Polyakov and Skorokhod cohabited and on the eve of the death of the people’s deputy, they quarreled.
According to law enforcement officers, Polyakov drank alcohol before his death with Dzhambulatov and rode a car around Kiev. Later Polyakov got into a taxi, said the lawyer of the driver of this car. People’s Deputy was not an accidental passenger in a taxi, they say in the Ministry of Internal Affairs.
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