Alexander Vitko
The Investigative Committee of Russia explained the reason of the correspondence arrest of the Prosecutor Department of the Ukrainian Chief military Prosecutor’s office Ruslan Kravchenko and the investigator of the Agency Vadim Primacy. A message posted on the website of the UK Sunday, July 23.
According to investigators, in 2014, Kravchenko, Primacom, and a former acting Prosecutor General of Ukraine Oleg Magnitskii, his first Deputy Nikolai Golomsha “organized knowingly unlawful criminal prosecution” citizen of Russia Admiral Alexander Vitko for political reasons.
“In particular Machnicki and Golomsha gave illegal instructions on conducting pre-trial investigation, Primack led its production, and Kravchenko has carried out supervision over the procedural activity”, — said the Investigative Committee.
July 20, the Basmanny district court of Moscow arrested in absentia Kravchenko and Primacy. SK indicates that the earlier a similar measure was chosen in respect Makhnytskiy and Golomsha.
In court on Sunday said that Primack and Kravchenko was charged under part 2 of article 299 of the criminal code (“Attraction obviously innocent to criminal liability or unlawful institution of criminal proceedings”). Both are in the international wanted list.
55-year-old Alexander Vitko — commander of black sea fleet of the Russian Navy. In Ukraine he is accused of including the encroachment on the territorial integrity of the country, incitement to treason and waging aggressive war. In Kiev believe that he in the period from 20 February to 21 March 2014 in the Crimea, “organized and provided the Commission subordinate the black sea fleet military occupation of the territory of the Peninsula,” injury “objects that have great defensive value” and incited Ukrainian officers to treason. According to Ukrainian investigators, his actions resulted in “inflicting damages in the loss of all state-owned facilities with a total value of over one trillion hryvnia” (about 2.3 trillion rubles at the current exchange rate). A Kiev court gave permission for the detention of turns.
In March 2014, the SC found his victim for the initiation of earlier business about attraction obviously innocent to criminal responsibility. According to the Russian investigators, the prosecution in Ukraine the black sea fleet commander aimed at destabilizing the situation in the Crimea. “Vitko acted in strict accordance with Russian and international law and normative documents of the Ministry of defense of the Russian Federation”, — said the Investigative Committee.
The Russian authorities insist that the Crimea became part of Russia in March 2014 on legal grounds by the results of the referendum in which the majority of voters of the region’s residents voted for joining the Russian Federation.