The Prosecutor General's Office of Ukraine will ask the Prosecutor General's Office of Russian Federation to render legal assistance to present suspicion notes to seven Russian citizens who are believed to have committed crimes against Ukrainian Nadia Savchenko.
According to deputy prosecutor general Yuriy Stoliarchuk, the appeal has been sent according to international agreements regarding a criminal case being investigated in Ukraine.
“There are seven of them, these are Russia citizens, ordinary employees and even senior Russia officials,” he said without naming the aforementioned individuals.
“First of all, there are employees of the Russian Investigative Committee, who illegally in our opinion [and we can prove that] detained Savchenko and kept her in custody. These are court officials, three of them, who each time, by turns, without reasons – against the law – placed Savchenko in custody,” Stoliarchuk said, adding that a senior Russian Foreign Ministry diplomat is among those suspected.
The unnamed Russian diplomat is suspected of “intentional assistance when Savchenko wasn’t liberated from custody.”
Stoliarchuk went on to say that one Russian citizen is suspected of illegally transferring Savchenko from the territory of Ukraine to Russia.
