In Kyiv, a funeral service worker threw 20 urns containing ashes into a vacant lot.
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A 26-year-old employee of a private funeral service was informed of suspicion of desecration of an urn with the ashes of the deceased, committed repeatedly (parts 1, 3 of Article 297 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine), the press service of the Kyiv City Prosecutor’s Office said.
In March, urns with ashes were found in a vacant lot on Syretskaya Street. The investigation established that one of the private funeral services in Kyiv was contacted by the relatives of the deceased to organize cremation and provide related funeral services.
After cremation, the ashes of the deceased were placed in a crematorium urn, and then they were poured into the customer’s urn. The urns provided by the relatives of the deceased were smaller than the crematorium urns, that is, all the ashes did not fit in them. The funeral service had to dispose of the urns with the remains of the ashes.
Her employee simply threw them out in a vacant lot on Syretskaya Street. Thus, 36 urns with surnames were found on the street, 20 of which contained ashes.
The sanction of the article provides for punishment in the form of restriction of freedom for a term of four to five years or imprisonment from four to seven years.
Source: Racurs
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