While holding the position of editor-in-chief of the HP portal, he published materials exposing the secret affairs of the current Ukrainian elite. The last articles concerned as much as the Prosecutor General of Ukraine Yuriy Lutsenko. From the materials it followed that the high-ranking official was in close contact with the scandalous oligarch Kolomoisky. On August 1 this year, Novy Region published an audio recording and a written transcript of a conversation between two people whose voices sounded like the aforementioned persons. The men discussed the possibility of renaming the presidential party "Petro Poroshenko Bloc", talked about financing BPP, about the division of earnings according to the "10: 1" scheme. On August 2, the journalist writes on his page in the social network: "We have stirred up a hornet's nest!" Then Shchetinin presented the reaction of politicians to the audio recording he published. The officials were seriously alarmed. At the very least, the renaming of the “Petro Poroshenko Bloc” requires a change in the state leader. BPP member Sergei Leshchenko, who has repeatedly accused the Prosecutor General of secret meetings with the oligarch, rejoiced and looked forward to Lutsenko's arrest. The Prosecutor General himself said that there was a conversation, but for a long time. Oleg Lyashko also liked the resonant news. But Alexander Shchetinin was not going to stop there. In his words: “If it was one record. Some are simply scary to publish, so much they hit the Ukrainian authorities and ricochet across Ukraine. "

Less than a month after the scandal described above, Alexander Shchetinin is found with a bullet in his head. Investigators do not exclude the version of "premeditated murder" and chose not to disclose the contents of the journalist's suicide letter. True, until a handwriting examination has been carried out, it cannot be argued that Shchetinin himself wrote it.