Lazarenko accuses Kyiv of assassination plot (11/01/98)

Lazarenko accuses Kyiv of assassination plot

RFE/RL Newsline

KYIV - Pavlo Lazarenko, a former prime minister of Ukraine and currently an opposition leader in the Verkhovna Rada, told the newspaper Kievskie Viedomosti on October 21 that several high government officials are plotting to discredit and then assassinate him.

"They want to throw me out of politics, out of Ukraine, and out of the circle of the living," he said.

Meanwhile, Interfax reported the same day that Ukrainian Prime Minister Valerii Pustovoitenko has ordered an investigation into a company associated with Mr. Lazarenko that benefited excessively from the privatization of an airfield.

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