A Moscow court has authorized the arrest in absentia of Ukraine’s former ambassador extraordinary and plenipotentiary to Kazakhstan, Pyotr Vrublevski, as part of a criminal case launched after he called for the killing of as many Russians as possible around the world. The Ukrainian diplomat has been declared a federal and international wanted person, TASS reported.
“The preliminary investigation body within the framework of the investigation of a criminal case against Pyotr Yuryevich Vrublewski, accused in absentia of committing a crime under paragraph “a” Part 2 of Article 282 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (inciting hatred or enmity, as well as humiliating human dignity) decided to put the Ukrainian diplomat on federal, and then international, wanted list. In addition, the Moscow court granted the request of the investigation to impose a preventive measure on the Ukrainian citizen Vrublevski “detention” for a period of two months, calculating the period from the moment of his extradition to the territory of the Russian Federation or from the moment of detention of the accused in the territory of the Russian Federation,” said the interlocutor of the agency.
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As indicated in the database of the Basmanny Court of Moscow, which decided to arrest the former Ukrainian ambassador in absentia, the corresponding decision has not yet been appealed. Information about Pyotr Wrublevski is also included in the search database of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation. At the same time, the court and Russian law enforcement agencies did not specify details of the criminal case against the former extraordinary and plenipotentiary ambassador of Ukraine to Kazakhstan.
Rosfinmonitoring included him in the list of terrorists and extremists in early February. As the investigation found, in August 2022, in an interview with Kazakh blogger Dias Kuzairov Vrublevski said that the Ukrainian regime was trying to kill as many Russians as possible. After that, the Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Ermukhambet Konuspayev met with him at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Kazakhstan and expressed a protest to the diplomat from Ukraine in connection with his statements about the Russians, and the official representative of the Kazakh Foreign Ministry Aybek Smadiyarov noted that the Ukrainian politician has apologized to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Kazakhstan for his statements. However, he was not expelled from the country, but went on vacation. Wroblewski was later removed from his post.
The head of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation, Alexander Bastrykin, for his part, instructed the department to give a legal assessment of the “extremist statements” of a politician, as well as to check the former ambassador and the Kazakh blogger for participation in already committed crimes against servicemen of the Russian Armed Forces. According to the Investigative Committee, Vrublevski’s actions were aimed at inciting hatred or enmity, as well as at humiliating the dignity of Russian citizens based on nationality, language, origin, carried out in public, including through the use of media with the threat of violence. The sanction imposed on the Ukrainian diplomat under an article of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation for inciting hatred or enmity provides for a penalty of up to six years in prison.
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2024-03-04 05:16:00
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