The Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) in the Autonomous Republic of Crimea has opened a criminal investigation into the violation of the procedure for entry to and exit from the temporarily occupied territory of Crimea by foreigners who took part in the so-called International Economic Forum in Yalta on April 20-22.
This information was put in the unified register of pre-trial investigations as the violation of the procedure for entry to the temporarily occupied territory of Ukraine and departure from it by foreigners who participated in the economic forum in Yalta, the press service of the Prosecutor’s Office of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea (based in Kyiv) reported on April 25.
“In particular, they helped the occupation authorities in the development of the tourist sphere on the peninsula, called for the lifting of sanctions and recognition of the results of the illegally conducted ‘referendum’ on the separation of Crimea from Ukraine and its entry into the Russian Federation,” the report said.
The Crimean prosecutor’s office launched these criminal proceedings qualified under Part 1 of Article 332-1 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine (violation of the order of entry into the temporarily occupied territory of Ukraine and departure from it).
In addition, the prosecutor’s office has prepared queries to countries whose citizens participated in the ‘forum’ and violated Ukrainian legislation.
