One of the coordinators of pro-Russian movement in Kharkiv, Konstantin Dolgov, spent $1,000 to organize a series of arson attacks on PrivatBank ATMs in the city, chief of the Main Directorate of the Ukrainian Interior Ministry in Kharkiv region Anatoliy Dmytriyev has said.
“The organizer, resident of Kharkiv Dolgov Konstantin, born in 1979,
without previous convictions, spent $1,100 to organize the crimes he is
charged with… During a search of the place of residence of Dolgov
firearms were found. Dolgov has refused to render testimony,” Dmytriyev
told the deputies at the session of Kharkiv Regional Council on
Thursday.
He also said that police established not just clients, but the
mediator and executors of the series of acts of arson of the ATMs (four
persons).
As reported, a series of acts of arson of PrivatBank ATMs took place
in Kharkiv in late March. Konstantin Dolgov, coordinator of the local
pro-Russian movement, was detained on suspicion of organizing the acts
of arson on April 19. A Kharkiv court sentenced him to sixty days of
arrest. He is expected be freed on June 17.
