A gas processing plant was designed in Russia — the SSU detained managers of a Ukrainian holding
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Fri, 10 Jan 2025 20:01:00 +0200
SSU detained a group of occupiers they helped build a gas processing plant in RostovAccording to the case materials, during 20232024, the defendants participated in the construction of a portside liquefied gas production plant in the Rostov region of Russia.
The products manufactured at this enterprise were loaded onto tankers of the shadow fleet of the Russian Federation and secretly sold in various parts of the world.According to available data, Moscow directed most of the profits from shadow trade to finance the war in Ukraine.
As a result of comprehensive measures in the Kyiv region, the SSU detained an equipment developer and a design engineer of the holding company, who participated in the construction of a Russian plant.It is documented how both defendants developed all the design documentation for the production facility and its technological capacities.Officials transferred finished developments to Russian customers through a coowner of a Ukrainian holding located in the temporarily occupied territory of the Donetsk region.According to the case materials, he owns five companies in Shakhty, Rostov Oblast, Russia, which supply equipment to gas stations of the sanctioned corporations Gazprom and Lukoil.In addition, his accomplice was detained in the Poltava region, who has his own network of gas stations in the temporarily occupied part of the territory in eastern Ukraine and refuels the military equipment of the invaders.
According to the Kyiv City Prosecutors Office, the equipment developer and design engineer, as well as the entrepreneur, were charged with aiding an aggressor state under Part 1 of Article 1112 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine.
They face up to 12 years in prison with confiscation of property.
Suspicion was also declared in absentia against the coowner of the holding, who lives in the Russian Federation, and the director of the gas station network, who lives in the temporarily occupied part of the Donetsk region.The three suspects were remanded in custody as a preventive measure.What is known about the detained Russian collaboratorThe Security Service of Ukraine, together with the State Bureau of Investigation, conducted an operation in Kherson, which resulted in the detention of another traitor who collaborated with the occupiers.As noted, the detainee is a junior inspector of the local pretrial detention center who defected to the Russian side during the temporary occupation.
At the beginning of the fullscale Russian invasion, he supported the invaders and received a position as a guard in a torture chamber set up in the building of the captured pretrial detention center.
His responsibilities includedguarding the cells where local residents, mostly members of the resistance movement, were heldattracting acquaintances to cooperate with the occupiers, promising them work in a Russian institution with payment in rubles and guarantees of loyalty from the aggressor.After the liberation of Kherson, the traitor tried to hide, constantly changing his place of residence.
However, law enforcement officers located him and detained him.
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