Crimean Tatar volunteer battalion members to be put on wanted list in occupied Crimea

Members of a Crimean Tatar battalion established in Ukraine’s Kherson Region on the de-facto border with the Russian-annexed Crimea will be put on wanted list, chief prosecutor of the occupied peninsula Natalia Poklonskaya said Thursday in an interview with Rossiya TV channel journalists.

Earlier Thursday, Poklonskaya told TASS investigative bodies of the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB, former KGB) Department in Crimea have initiated a criminal case over the establishment of an "illegal armed formation" in Kherson region of mainland Ukraine.

"Over the establishment of an illegal armed unit on the territory of the Kherson Region, mentioned by [Lenur] Islyamov [former Crimean deputy premier, an organizer of the peninsula’s blockade], the republic’s prosecutor’s office sent materials to FSB Crimean Department investigative bodies," Poklonskaya said.

"Today the decision was made to initiate a criminal case under Part 1 Article 208 of the Russian Criminal Code," she said.

The punishment under the article envisions up to 15 years in prison.

Ukrainian parliament deputies Mustafa Dzhemilev and Refat Chubarov have earlier been put by Russia’s law enforcement bodies on an international wanted list, Islyamov -- on a federal wanted list...
 [www.unian.info]
 22/1/16
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