Interfax Ukraine reported that Ukrainian steel maker Metinvest’s Mariupol based metallurgical plants Illich Iron & Steel Works and Azovstal have applied to the Prosecutor General's Office of Ukraine with a request to open criminal proceedings on the fact of theft of metal products belonging to the plants by Russian invaders. They said “From open sources, the applicant learnt that representatives of the military groups of the Russian Federation and persons controlled by them and terrorist groups that occupied Mariupol are taking out the property of the plants in an unknown direction and using at their own discretion, without legal grounds. Such thefts have become systemic.” They said that “The facts of metal export are confirmed by the statements of the occupying authorities and collaborators themselves, in particular, about the resumption of the work of the Mariupol port for the export of metal products and grain, as well as the tracking data of the sea vessel RM3 registered in the Russian Federation, which delivered the stolen metal to the port of Rostov-on Don. The damage to the plants from the theft of products amounts to tens of millions of dollars.” They are asking law enforcement agencies to enter information about the commission of a criminal offense under Articles 185, 186 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine for theft, robbery by the military armed forces and other military groups of the Russian Federation to the unified register of pretrial investigations, and also to start an investigation and take procedural actions in accordance with Article 55 of the Code of Criminal Procedure of Ukraine.
Interfax Ukraine reported that Ukrainian steel maker Metinvest’s Mariupol based metallurgical plants Illich Iron & Steel Works and Azovstal have applied to the Prosecutor General's Office of Ukraine with a request to open criminal proceedings on the fact of theft of metal products belonging to the plants by Russian invaders. They said “From open sources, the applicant learnt that representatives of the military groups of the Russian Federation and persons controlled by them and terrorist groups that occupied Mariupol are taking out the property of the plants in an unknown direction and using at their own discretion, without legal grounds. Such thefts have become systemic.” They said that “The facts of metal export are confirmed by the statements of the occupying authorities and collaborators themselves, in particular, about the resumption of the work of the Mariupol port for the export of metal products and grain, as well as the tracking data of the sea vessel RM3 registered in the Russian Federation, which delivered the stolen metal to the port of Rostov-on Don. The damage to the plants from the theft of products amounts to tens of millions of dollars.” They are asking law enforcement agencies to enter information about the commission of a criminal offense under Articles 185, 186 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine for theft, robbery by the military armed forces and other military groups of the Russian Federation to the unified register of pretrial investigations, and also to start an investigation and take procedural actions in accordance with Article 55 of the Code of Criminal Procedure of Ukraine.
