MOSCOW, May 31. /TASS/. A Moscow district court has sanctioned the arrest in absentia of Petr Totovets, chief of a detention facility in the Ukrainian city of Zhitomir, and Alexander Nozdratenko, chief of the Bashtansky district police of Ukraine’s Nikolayev region, on charges of abuse of Russian servicemen taken prisoner in Ukraine. The men were put on the international wanted list.
"Moscow’s Savelovsky district court has ruled to arrest Alexander Nozdratenko and Petr Totovets, who are accused under part 1, article 356 of the Russian Criminal Code, for a term of two months since the moment of their actual detention, or from the moment of their transfer to Russian law enforcement agencies in case of extradition or deportation to Russia. They have been put on the international wanted list," the court’s spokesperson Maria Mikhailova told TASS on Tuesday.
Earlier, the Savelovsky district court sanction the arrest in absentia of Sergey Shamsur and Roman Chabanenko, chief of detention facilities in the Ukrainian cities of Nikolayev and Kropivnitsky, who are also accused of cruel treatment of Russian prisoners of war. Arrests in absentia were also sanctioned for Kharkov and Sumy detention facilities’ chiefs, Yevgeny Bartoshchak and Igor Yakovlev. They were put on the international wanted list.
Russia’s Investigative Committee said in late April that a criminal case had been opened against the chiefs and employees of detention facilities in the city of Kropivnitsky, Nikolayev region, in Kiev (facility No13), and in Poltava (facility No23) on charges of cruel treatment of Russian prisoners of war (part 1, article 356 of the Russian Criminal Code).