A court in Krasnodar, Russia, has prolonged until July the preliminary detention of the arrested Ukrainian border guard officer Pavlo Hryb, defense lawyer Marina Dubrovina told the agency Interfax-South.
As reported, ex-Ukrainian State Border Guard Service official Ihor Hryb said on August 28, 2017, that Russian special services had abducted his 19-year-old son Pavlo during a visit to Gomel, Belarus, where he went on August 24 to meet a girl whom he had met and talked to only on social-networking sites. It was agreed that Pavlo would return the same day. After he failed to return the next day, Ihor Hryb traveled to Gomel to look for him.
He said that in Belarus he had learned that Pavlo was on a Russian list of wanted persons in connection with a terrorist attack and that a search had been initiated by the Russian Federal Security Service’s Directorate for the Krasnodar region in Sochi.
It was reported on September 7, 2017, that Hryb was in a detention facility in Krasnodar, Russia. On March 2, the Oktyabrsky District Court of Krasnodar decided to extend Hryb’s arrest until May 4, 2018.
