Poland detains Russian wanted by Ukraine for excavations in occupied territories: awaiting extradition request
Kyiv • UNN
Poland's Internal Security Agency has detained Russian citizen Oleksandr B., who is wanted by Ukraine for illegal archaeological excavations in the occupied territories between 2014 and 2019. The damages are estimated at over 200 million hryvnias, and an extradition request is expected.
Poland's Internal Security Agency (ABW) on December 4 detained Russian Federation citizen Oleksandr B., who is wanted by Ukraine for conducting archaeological excavations in Russian-occupied territory. This was confirmed to PAP by Jacek Dobrzyński, spokesman for the Minister-Coordinator of Special Services, UNN reports.
The Internal Security Agency, acting on behalf of the Warsaw Voivodeship Prosecutor's Office in connection with the Ukrainian side's request for international legal assistance, detained Russian Federation citizen Oleksandr B. on December 4.
He explained that "the investigation concerns the illegal conduct of archaeological excavations in 2014-2019 in the territories of Ukraine currently occupied by Russia."
According to RMF FM, which first reported on this, the Russian is accused of "destroying cultural heritage sites in Crimea."
"The damages are estimated at over 200 million hryvnias," RMF FM reports.
According to Dobrzyński, the man has been detained and is at the disposal of the prosecutor's office. The spokesman for the Minister-Coordinator of Special Services of Poland said that "a request for the extradition of the detainee should be received from the Ukrainian prosecutor's office."
"The court now has time to (...) calmly consider the case," said Minister-Coordinator of Special Services Tomasz Siemoniak on TOK FM radio on Thursday.
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