A DUI Mayor Hits a Woman in Donetsk Oblast (Updated)

If they don’t kill you in the mine, they can try to kill you outside.





On October 8, Yuriy Anisimov, 58, the dead-drunk mayor of Dymytrov, a town in Donetsk oblast, raced his KIA Cerato into Iryna Tymoshenko, 48, an employee of a local coal mine.

The woman was hospitalized with multiple injuries, including a concussion, broken teeth, fractured ribs and chest trauma. The mayor tried to flee the scene but was surrounded by his constituents, some of whom wished him death.

Police made sure he sustained no further injuries.

UPDATE
On October 20, the mayor was freed on bail. On October 22, the woman died.

Sources:
http://censor.net.ua/go/offer/ResourceID/135570.html
http://pro-test.org.ua/index.php?id=5005&show=news&newsid=46286
http://ukr.proua.com/news/2009/10/12/030115.html

Another Mazhor Meets His Maker

Had he killed somebody else with his car, he would’ve most likely gotten away with it. But now that killed himself, he won’t kill anybody.



Case Summary
Name: Viktor Sivkovych
Age: 25
Next of kin: MP Volodymyr Sivkovych (PRU), father, former KGB operative
Place of death: Kyiv, Ukraine
Time of death: Saturday, June 25, 11:15 p.m.
Vehicle: Lexus
Traffic violation: Speeding
Cause of death: Crashed his Lexus into a street light in, car exploded and burned

This latest fatality comes a mere six weeks after Hanna Herman, a fellow Party of Regions MP, lost her 17-year-old son in a similarly shocking accident.

A friend of the deceased says Viktor was neither an expert driver nor a drinker nor a reckless driver. The man doesn’t rule out the possibility that the accident may have been an assassination plot masterminded by enemies of MP Sivkovych, a former KGB operative.

MP Valeriy Bondyk (PRU) follows the same theory and believes that the car’s machinery may have been tampered with. Bondyk trusts the investigation to determine the cause of the accident and claims that due to built-in safeguards “Lexuses don’t burn.”

The deceased worked as a bailiff at the Ministry of Justice.

Sources:
http://obozrevatel.com/news/2009/7/27/314645.htm

Herman’s Younger Son, 17, Dies in Car Accident (Updated)

Roman was a 17 year-old on his way from Odesa when his BMW-335 collided with a Mercedes truck. He died.

He was the younger son of MP Hanna Herman (PRU).

Accounts of the accident, which took place in Kirovohrad oblast, at 2:40 a.m. local time, vary. According to kirovograd.proua.com, Roman was driving the car, while, according to UNIAN, the driver was another person, an 20-year old. (In Ukraine, driving a car is illegal for people under the age of 18.)

In the Tabloid comments section, people express condolences, offer sympathy, blast the mazhory, argue with each other and ask questions: How could this kid travel to Odesa and back without parental supervision? Was he driving the car?

UPDATE
According to eyewitness accounts, the two had spent some time at a nearby restaurant, Gazeta.ua reports. The car was moving erratically, indicating that the driver might have been drunk. It even took the opposite lane before entering the right lane and gaining speed, says a local convenience store manager quoted by Gazeta.ua.

The driver was hospitalized and remains stable.

Sources:
http://www.pravda.com.ua/news/2009/6/15/96526.htm
http://tabloid.pravda.com.ua/news/4a35fb1aa0d95/view_comments/
http://www.gazeta.ua/index.php?id=296382
http://www.gazeta.ua/index.php?id=296352
http://kirovograd.proua.com/news/2009/06/15/103133.html
http://tsn.ua/ua/ukrayina/v-dtp-zaginuv-sin-ganni-german.html
http://www.unian.net/ukr/news/news-321012.html

Kyiv Mayor Breaks Traffic Rules, Video Shows

With traffic laws getting tougher, many drivers have rediscovered safer driving, bringing accident rates down.

Still, the tougher laws don’t work for the tough guys (aka mazhory) who remain secure in the belief they can get away with murder. (The tougher laws certainly didn’t work for the tough Mercedes S600 guy who ignored traffic lights and hit a woman at full speed. The woman died. The driver, DUI, attempted to flee the scene.)

A non-lethal yet high-profile traffic violation case involves Kyiv Mayor Leonid “Kosmos” Chernovetsky, whose Rolls-Royce took the opposite lane — at least twice — while driving away from a restaurant.

STB caught the act on its candid camera and took the footage to the top brass at the DAI (spelled da-yi), the country’s highway patrol police.

Cop 1 detected three violations, for a total of Hr. 1,500 ($195) in fines, but added that the footage cannot be used as evidence. Cop 2 found two violations, punishable with a fine of Hr. 255-340 ($33-44), and said the footage must be examined for authenticity.

The DAI will report its ruling within 15 days.

Meanwhile, Mayor Chernovetsky orders cemeteries to charge entry fees and then raids kindergartens to sing “V lesu rodilas yolochka” in front of the cameras.




More “one law for all” updates. Vitaliy Finegold, the Crimean mazhor who killed a 25-year old woman with his Bentley last summer, has been released from custody. Police claims putting Finegold under oath not to leave town, pending investigation of him as a witness, not as a suspect.

In a country where judges harvest bribes, the system holds very little justice for the likes of Finegold.

A week ago, a court in Lutsk summarily amnestied the sons of a Rivne Court of Appeals judge, after sentencing them to 48 and 54 months’ imprisonment for beating a man to death.

The court based its ruling on “extenuating circumstances”: the younger defendant was a minor at the time of the crime, the older defender has two children.

Videos uploaded from:
http://kiev.pravda.com.ua/news/49788149d4ba5/
http://censor.net.ua/go/offer/ResourceID/112177.html
Original sources:
http://stb.ua
http://5.ua

Crimea: Son of Lawmaker Kills Female Biker With Bentley

Quick facts
Date of crime: Sep. 16, 2008, 2:40 a.m.
Place of crime: Simferopol, Crimea, Ukraine
Victim: “Nikita,” female biker, 25, mother of 5-year-old girl
Crime: vehicular homicide at crossroads, bike smashed to smithereens
Suspect: Vitaliy Finegold, 24, son of local tycoon Yosyp Finegold (net worth: $68M), member of Soyuz Party
Vehicle speed, according to eyewitness (fellow biker): at least 160 kph
Blood alcohol test results: none taken
Case status: pending investigation
Preliminary police reports: not available

Are we gonna watch yet another “one law for all” travesty of justice, Mr. President? Or perhaps PM Tymoshenko will dispatch her son-in-law, the biker, to make sure “there is justice?”

Video uploaded from: http://tsn.ua/chorna-hronika/dtp-za-uchastyu-sina-deputata-u-krimu-zasekretili-video.html (1+1)

Man Who Killed 6 People DUI Gets 10 Years

Andriy Poltavets, 37, the heavily drunk man who killed four adults and two children after plowing his SUV into a crowd at a tram station in Kharkiv, has received 10 years’ imprisonment. That’s less than two years for every person killed by Poltavets, who has a past history of DUI.

The ruling, which includes a 3-year suspension of driver’s license, was made today, Channel 5 reports. Asked about how she felt, a relative of one of the victims expressed feelings of injustice and insecurity.

So here’s what “one law for all” means in this case: Once you get drunk and get in that car and start killing people, there’s no limit to how many people you can kill. You’ll only get 10 years, plus a 3-year suspension of drivers’ license. Well, perhaps you’ll even get paroled, which means you can start killing even sooner!

Welcome to Ukraine!

Kill 6 People, Get 5 Years

Quick Facts

Venue: Kharkiv, Ukraine
Defendant: Andriy Poltavets, 37
Crime: Vehicular homicide, DUI
Victims: 4 adults, 2 children
Expected penalty: 5-10 years’ imprisonment
Status: Pending trial

“One law for all,” as Yushchenko put it during the 2007 parliamentary campaign.

Sources:
http://obozrevatel.com/news/2008/5/8/235985.htm
http://video.oboz.ua/movie.php?aWQ9MTY1NzEmdnQ9Mw==