Deputy Director of the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry’s consular service department Vasyl Kyrylych has said 105 citizens of Ukraine were sentenced to different terms of imprisonment in Greece as of early March 2018, while pretrial investigations are under way in cases of 43 Ukrainians.
According to him, there are two groups of Ukrainian citizens who are detained or convicted in Greece. In particular, these are Ukrainians who are crew members of seized foreign ships and those crew members whose vessels are reportedly involved in the smuggling of refugees.
