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The Pechersk district office of the main department of the Ukrainian Interior Ministry has revoked its demand to freeze the domain name ex.ua, reads a statement posted on the ex.ua page on Facebook.

A respective document, which was sent to the registrar of the domain name and is dated Feb. 2, 2012, has been posted on the page.

"Due to the fact that the pre-trial investigation in the case is continuing, the investigation department of the Pechersk district office has currently revoked its demand, in line with Article 23 of the Criminal Procedure Code of Ukraine, which was sent to your address on Jan. 31, 2012, and requests the cancellation of the blocking of the domain name ex.ua (www.ex.ua)," reads the document.

The media liaisons department of the Ukrainian Interior Ministry’s main office in Kyiv confirmed to Interfax-Ukraine that such a document had been sent from the Pechersk district department of police to the domain name’s registrar, Internet Invest Ltd., and that the motion to block the domain name ex.ua had been cancelled.

"The criminal case has not been closed, it is being investigated, but the investigator currently has no sufficient grounds to stop the work of the site," the police said.

The police made it clear that "the investigator, as a procedurally independent person, studied all of the submitted materials during the investigation of this criminal case and took such a decision."

As reported, on Jan. 31, police shut down popular file sharing site ex.ua for violations of intellectual property rights.

The media liaisons office of the Ukrainian Interior Ministry reported on Tuesday that some 200 servers with a total volume of illegal content over 6,000 terabytes were seized during searches conducted at the office and data centers of the online file storage provider.

ex.ua representative Yuriy Piskovy confirmed to Interfax-Ukraine reports on the suspension of the domain name delegation. He has not confirmed reports about the seizure of the company’s servers.