SBU confirms detention of Donetsk torture prison chief
SBU counterintelligence operatives have detained in Kyiv a former militant of the “DPR” terrorist organization, head of an illegal prison located in the occupied Donetsk.
That’s according to the SBU press center, Ukrinform reports.
The security agency suspects the man of organizing and taking a direct part in the extrajudicial killings and torture of inmates, Ukrainian citizens.
At present, a procedural routine is underway as part of the criminal proceedings targeting the suspect.
The court is yet to rule on a measure of restraint pending the inquiry, while detectives are into collecting additional evidence of the perpetrator’s criminal activity.
The culprit was detained within the framework of an earlier opened criminal case under four articles of the Criminal code of Ukraine: Art. 149 (human trafficking); Art. 258-3 (creation of a terrorist group or terrorist organization); Art. 260 (creation of paramilitary or armed formation not provided by law); and Art. 438 (violation of the laws and customs of war).
The SBU’s investigation has been supervised by the Donetsk Regional Prosecutor's Office of Ukraine.
Chief of the National Police, Ihor Klymenko, later told reporters that the National Police and the Security Service would hold a joint briefing to elaborate on the arrest.
At the same time, Klymenko stopped short of saying when the briefing would take place.
As Ukrinform reported earlier referring to a former prisoner of the notorious Izolyatsia penitentiary facility in the occupied Donetsk, Ukrainian journalist Stanislav Aseev, a former prison chief, Denis Kulikovsky (aka Palych), had been detained in Kyiv.
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