“The European Union will impose sanctions against Derkach Jr. and Shahist Karyakin-Radio Svoboda on January 29, 16:36 Share: Andriy Derkach (Photo: Reuters/Gleb Garanich) To the 16th Package individuals and legal entities, Radio Liberty reports. In the project of a document of a new package of sanctions, which is at the disposal”, – WRITE ON: ua.news
Andriy Derkach (Photo: Reuters/Gleb Granich)
The 16th EU sanctions package against Russia due to its full-scale invasion of Ukraine will include several dozen new individuals and legal entities, Radio Svoboda reports.
The project of a new package of sanctions, which is at the disposal of journalists, says that the son of the former SBU head of the SBU’s time of Kuchma Leonid Derkach’s presidency Andrey Derkach will be included in the black list. In Ukraine, he is wanted and is a person involved in trial.
Sanctions are also planned to be imposed against the once youngest Grossmaster, a native of Simferopol Sergey Karyakin. In 2009, he changed his citizenship to Russian, since 2014 he publicly called for an aggressive war, justified and recognized the legitimate armed aggression of the Russian Federation against Ukraine.
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The new sanctions package plans to expand the list of persons and organizations that are under limitations, including structures from China and DPRK. Additional measures against representatives of the Russian media involved in the spread of misinformation as part of a campaign coordinated by the Russian authorities will also be introduced.
Andrei Derkach’s case is short
On October 27, 2022, the court arrested Derkach in absentia in the case of the State Council and illegal enrichment. According to the investigation, he was part of the agent network of the GRU of the Russian Federation and “was engaged in the creation of a number of private security enterprises to use them for the rapid capture of Ukraine.”
According to the United States, Derkach maintained close ties with Russian intelligence and was an active Russian agent for more than ten years. He was wanted.
On January 10, 2023, President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky confirmed that the People’s Deputy Andriy Derkach was deprived of Ukrainian citizenship.
In November of the same year, the People’s Deputy Alexander Dubinsky reported suspicion of the State Executive Council.
According to the investigation, he was a criminal organization under the call sign Buratino, which was formed by the General Directorate of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of (The game) and which also included Derkach.