 Since then a number of assassinations of lesser ISD members took place from January to July 1996.However, the assassination of Shcherban became the most noticeable, because he was a People's Deputy of Ukraine.Former Ukrainian Prime Minister Pavlo Lazarenko has been implicated in the 1996 murder of Yehven Shcherban by the Prosecutor General of Ukraine Svyatoslav Piskun in January 2003.