Former chief of Berkut police force hiding in Crimea – PGO
Dmytro Sadovnyk, the former commander of the special purpose company of Berkut riot police force, is hiding in the Russian-occupied Crimea.
Head of the Special Investigations Unit at the Prosecutor General’s Office of Ukraine Serhiy Horbatiuk said this on the air of ICTV Ukrainian TV channel.
“According to operational data, he is in Simferopol now,” he said.
He added that the majority of former Berkut officers, suspected of murders of the Euromaidan activists in 2014, was hiding in the territory of Russia now.
As a reminder, September 19, 2014, the court released Dmytro Sadovnyk under house arrest. October 1, he did not come to the court hearing. October 3, he was put on wanted list. Sadovnyk is suspected in involvement in the mass killings of activists during the Euromaidan protests in Kyiv in November 2013 – February 2014.
