Thieves of a memorial plaque from the Lesya Ukrainka Museum were detained in Kyiv
The police detained, and the court placed under night house arrest two Kiev residents who stole a memorial plaque to the poetess Lesya Ukrainka in Kyiv, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
This was reported by the Communications Department of the GUNP in Kyiv.
“The offenders took the bronze bust, broke it into pieces and gradually sold it as scrap metal. Material evidence was seized. During the investigation, the court sentenced them to house arrest. Information was entered into the Unified Register of Pre-trial Investigations under Art. 185 (Theft) of the Criminal Code of Ukraine,” the message says.
As the head of the Main Directorate of the National Police in Kyiv, Andrey Krischenko, said, law enforcement officers carried out a whole range of operational search activities and detained two residents of the Svyatoshinsky district on suspicion of committing an offense, one of whom was previously convicted of robbery and drug possession.
“We established that a 33-year-old and a 32-year-old Kiev resident stole the memorial plaque, broke it into small pieces and handed them over to scrap metal collection points. We seized one part of the board and added it to criminal proceedings as evidence. The men have already been declared suspected of committing a crime under Part 4 of Article 185 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine - this is theft committed on a large scale,” Korishchenko said.
“By a court decision, a preventive measure was chosen for the attackers during the investigation - house arrest. One of them is 22 hours a day, the second is from 00:06 to 00:XNUMX. For this crime, the men face up to eight years in prison,” the police noted.
Earlier in early March, a museum employee received a message that a bust of Lesya Ukrainka had disappeared from the facade of the building on Saksaganskogo Street. Later it became known that Kyiv law enforcement officers opened proceedings regarding the theft of a bust of Lesya Ukrainka from the facade of the Lesya Ukrainka Museum building in Kyiv.
The thieves of a memorial plaque from the Lesya Ukrainka Museum were detained in Kyiv.