The Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) has completed the investigation into the case on charges brought against four Ukrainian citizens for causing a series of explosions in Dnipropetrovsk, Kharkiv and Zaporizhia, the SBU press center has told Interfax-Ukraine.
“The SBU has completed its investigation into a criminal case opened against four Ukrainians for causing in 2010-2012 a series of explosions in Dnipropetrovsk, Kharkiv and Zaporizhia. They were charged under Part 1, Article 258-3 (the creation of a terrorist group), Part 2-3, Article 258 (terrorist attack) and Part 2, Article 263 (the illegal production and storage of explosives),” the press center said.
“The defendants and defense lawyers today began to study the case materials, then the case will be sent to the Prosecutor General’s Office for approval of the indictment, and then it will be sent to court,” the SBU said.
The SBU will hold a briefing on this occasion at 1600 on Thursday. On April 27, 2012, four explosions occurred in a one-hour span in Dnipropetrovsk, injuring 31 people, including 10 teenagers, 26 victims were hospitalized. All the explosive devices were planted in concrete trash containers.
SBU investigators are probing the criminal case opened by prosecutors on terror charges. On May 31, senior officials in the Interior Ministry and the Prosecutor General’s Office stated that two suspects had been arrested for allegedly demanding $4.5 million, otherwise they threatened to continue the explosions. It emerged on June 1 that four people were arrested. All of them have been remanded in custody by the court while the investigation is ongoing.
It was found later that one of them, Viktor Sukachov, is a senior political science professor at the National University of Dnipropetrovsk, and the second one, Vitaliy Fedoriak, is an assistant professor of political science.
