“The Security Service of Ukraine and the National Police and the Prosecutor’s Office collected evidence regarding a citizen of the Russian Federation who is illegally engaged in looting the cultural heritage of Ukraine in the temporarily occupied Crimea. Experts estimate losses from his activities at more than 200 million hryvnias. This was reported by the SBU press service. The head of the archeology sector of the “State Hermitage” works in St. Petersburg. In 2014, he led an archaeological expedition on the territory”, — write on: ua.news
The Security Service of Ukraine and the National Police and the Prosecutor’s Office collected evidence regarding a citizen of the Russian Federation who is illegally engaged in looting the cultural heritage of Ukraine in the temporarily occupied Crimea. Experts estimate losses from his activities at more than 200 million hryvnias.
This was reported by the SBU press service.
The head of the archeology sector of the “State Hermitage” works in St. Petersburg. In 2014, he led an archaeological expedition to the territory of the temporarily occupied Crimea, which was personally visited by Russian dictator Vladimir Putin.
For more than 10 years, this group has been conducting illegal excavations at the cultural heritage sites of Ukraine, in particular, on the territory of the archaeological complex “Ancient City of Myrmekii” in the Kerch region.
The law enforcement officers established that the excavations covered an area of hundreds of square meters. The occupiers removed the so-called cultural layer of the Ukrainian peninsula to a depth of almost 2 meters, which led to large-scale damage to historical objects that are part of the thousand-year-old Ukrainian statehood.
According to experts’ conclusions, archaeologists’ actions caused damage in the amount of more than UAH 200 million.
On the basis of the collected evidence, the citizen of the Russian Federation was informed in absentia about the suspicion under part. 4 Art. 298 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine for illegal search operations on archaeological heritage objects and their damage.
Currently, Ukrainian law enforcement officers are deciding the issue of declaring the suspect an international wanted man. The man is planned to be prosecuted for crimes against the cultural heritage of Ukraine.
Earlier, the Security Service of Ukraine informed in absentia about the suspicion to the assistant of the Russian dictator Vladimir Putin Volodymyr Medinsky and the rector of the Institute of International Relations of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation Anatoly Torkunov. They are accused of falsifying history.
Employees of the SBU in the Chernivtsi region collected the evidence base and informed the governor of the Bryansk region of the Russian Federation about the suspicion in absentia. He is accused of supplying the Russian military with weapons to kill Ukrainians.
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