“Employees of the SBU, in cooperation with the SBU, reported in absentia about the suspicion of treason and inciting religious enmity and hatred to Vadym Novinskyi, a People’s Deputy of several convocations. Source: State Bureau of Investigation, Security Service of Ukraine, interlocutors of the UP in law enforcement agencies Details: The police report does not specify the name of the person involved, but according to “Ukrainian Pravda”, it is about Novinsky, who for a long time was in the ranks of the “Party of Regions” and the “Opposition block”.”, — write: www.pravda.com.ua
Source: The State Bureau of Investigation, the Security Service of Ukraine, interlocutors of the UP in law enforcement agencies
Details: The law enforcement officer’s report did not specify the suspect’s last name, but according to “Ukrainian Pravda”, it is Novinsky, who was a member of the “Party of Regions” and “Opposition Bloc” for a long time.
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As is known, Novinsky resigned from the mandate in July 2022. As the special service notes, after the start of the full-scale war, he left for the European Union on a charter flight, where he continued to work in the interests of the Russian Federation.
According to the case file, the former People’s Deputy was in direct contact with the Patriarch of the Russian Orthodox Church Kirill (Gundyaev) and used the religious communities subordinate to him in the EU countries to “disperse” Russian propaganda (the SBI calls Novinsky a “so-called “curator” from the Russian Orthodox Church and, in fact, a representative of the religious organization of a foreign state in Ukraine”).
In particular, as the investigation established, he involved foreign parishioners to discredit Ukraine in the international arena.
It is noted that forensic psychological-linguistic and semantic-textual examinations confirm the facts of the criminal activity of the former deputy in the interests of the Russian Federation.
On the basis of the received evidence, the suspect was notified in absentia of suspicion under two articles of the Criminal Code of Ukraine:
h 1 Art. 111 (treason);
h 2 Art. 161 (violations of the equality of citizens depending on their racial, national, regional belonging and religious beliefs, committed by an organized group of persons).
Prehistory:
- In January 2023, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy implemented the decision of the National Security Council of January 24 to impose sanctions on former deputy Vadym Novinsky and 9 other representatives of the clergy of the Russian Orthodox Church and the Ukrainian Orthodox Church.
- In April 2023, the Security Service of Ukraine and the Prosecutor General’s Office announced the seizure of the property of Novinsky, who is involved in aiding the aggressor country. The list of blocked assets included corporate rights to 40 Ukrainian enterprises and 30 gas wells, where industrial volumes of blue fuel are extracted. The total amount of seized property was more than UAH 3.5 billion.