“In July 2016, but no later than July 15, persons unidentified by the investigation on the territory of Kiev persuaded an organized group, which included Antonenko, Kuzmenko, Dugar and other persons not established at this time by the court, to commit a crime,” the agency leads the words of the prosecutor.

The state prosecutor also said that the organizers of the crime informed the perpetrators of information about Sheremet's place of residence and his car.

In December, the head of the National Police of Ukraine Yevhen Koval said that the investigation had identified five suspects in the murder of Sheremet.

Journalist Pavel Sheremet died on July 20, 2016 as a result of a car explosion in the center of Kiev.