Almost a year after Russia’s FSB produced videos on which Crimean Tatar Redvan Suleymanov and three other Ukrainians separately ‘confessed’ to taking part in a ‘Crimean sabotage’ plot organized by Ukraine’s Military Intelligence, one of the men has been convicted of something else altogether, and the ongoing trial of Suleymanov also bares scarcely any resemblance to the original ‘plot’. Now the prosecution has been forced to acknowledge that there are no grounds for the claims made by three of the alleged ‘aggrieved parties’.
Emil Kurbedinov, Suleymanov’s lawyer, reported on July 21, that the prosecution had altered the indictment, discarding as baseless the claims for ‘losses’ from Russia’s FSB; the Crimean emergencies ministry and Simferopol Airport. He explained to Krym.
