KIEV, April 5 – Maybe he just can’t help it.

Mykola Melnychenko, a former bodyguard who claims to have made thousands of secret recordings in the office of former President Leonid Kuchma in 1996-2000, may have tried – again - to make an unauthorized recording Monday.

Melnychenko and Kuchma had their first face-to-face meeting on Monday as prosecutors investigate the former president’s alleged involvement in the murder of journalist Heorhiy Gogadze in September 2000.

But Kuchma’s legal team said they suspect Melnychenko has used a sophisticated watch to try to secretly record the face-to-face meeting at the Prosecutor General’s Office, and asked the prosecutors on Tuesday to investigate.

“During the meeting we had a suspicion that Melnychenko had been making the secret recording with the help of a device built in his watch,” Viktor Petrenko, a member of Kuchma’s defense team, said.

He said that the watch had stopped displaying current time immediately after the meeting began, adding that Melnychenko had kept his hand high enough to make the recording of the meeting.

Melnychenko denied the allegations.

“Maybe my watch also has some fire arms?” Melnychenko told Ukrayinska Pravda.

The meeting was officially recorded by the Prosecutor General’s Office, while any other unauthorized recordings is illegal, according to the Ukrainian law.