Hitman kills businessman and son of well-known soccer player in downtown Lviv

July17200820:07

July 17, a hitman shot and killed Ihor Kulchytsky, a successful businessman and son of Karpaty player Ihor Kulchytsky. The accident happened at 10 a.m. on 6 Fredra St. outside the office of his construction company. The police blocked the roads leading out of the city, a ZIK correspondent reports.

The killer also fired 2 shots at Pavlo Fediv, the man who was accompanying I. Kulchytsky and wounded him. After a surgery, P. Fediv is in hospital and his condition is stable, doctors say. P. Fediv is a co-owner of the construction company.

A deputy interior minister has flown to Lviv, ZIK sources say.

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Two construction companies vied for a tender in 2008 to build a new children sports school on 1 Vahnyanyn St. One of the companies was the Oleh Luzhny Sports Development Foundation. The other was Kulchytsky’s company. The project was worth about 8 million euro.

There exist several versions why Kulchytsky was murdered. One of them is turf wars among crime syndicates. The other, more plausible, is fierce competition among construction companies. The police are bent to investigate the other scenario, Lviv Sheriff Ihor Tsikalo says. He dismissed the allegations that Ihor Kulchytsky belonged to mafia.