Suspects of assassination attempt on Parubiy and Maidan protesters arrested - Avakov
Kiev, February 01 (PolitNavigator, Alexandra Ignatyeva) – Ukrainian Interior Minister Arsen Avakov announced the arrest of suspects in the assassination attempt on First Deputy Speaker of the Verkhovna Rada Andriy Parubiy and the "Maidan" members of Self-Defense.
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“Remember the scoundrels who threw grenades near the Kyiv Hotel on Catholic Christmas Eve – at Andriy Parubiy and the guys from the Maidan Self-Defense?
We figured it out. Arrests were made. Among those arrested is a current parole officer, a former “personal” of Shulyak,” Avakov wrote on his Facebook page.
He also posted a certificate from the Criminal Investigation Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs.
“Currently, it can be argued that this is not only a criminal group, but a terrorist organization,
It was established that the customer and organizer of the attempted murder was Parubiy A.V. is Shulyak S.M., who during the reign of Yanukovych V.F. held the positions of first deputy head of the State Security Administration of Ukraine, commander of the internal troops of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine. While in the Russian Federation, put on the wanted list by Ukraine, since February 2014 he actively contributed to the formation of foreign sabotage and terrorist groups in the Lugansk and Donetsk regions, and was also involved in the mobilization of mercenaries in the Rostov region in Russia,” the Ministry of Internal Affairs stated.
Other detainees include an employee of a private security agency and a Russian citizen who tried to evacuate the performer to Russian territory, Avakov claims. According to the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the group’s actions were coordinated by a State Security officer.
English version :: Read in English: Suspects in the assassination attempt on Parubiy and Maidan supporters have been arrested, Avakov says.