Nikolai Mulyukin ordered to dismantle the important equipment of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant and take it to Belarus. He ordered the destruction of other property. The damage is estimated at more than UAH 1 billion.
The National Police investigators revealed the suspicion to the Deputy Director General Rosatom, Major General of Police Nikolai Mulyukin, who during the Chernobyl occupation led the robbery of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant. This is what Minister of Internal Affairs Igor Klimenko said in Telegram on Friday, April 26.
According to him, this is the first suspicion against a Russian official of this rank. The minister emphasized that Mulyukin was personally at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant.
“His “specialists” do not know what to do with the station during decommissioning. the National Guardsmen who defended it,” Klimenko noted.
The national police have identified more than 100 Russians who participated in the seizure and theft of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant. “It has been confirmed that Mulyukin led the occupiers of the area,” the minister added.
According to the Office of the Prosecutor General, Deputy General Director for Security of the Company’s JSC Leading Design and Research Institute of Industrial Technology Rosatom charged with violating the laws and customs of war stipulated by international treaties.
According to the investigation, the suspect was on the territory of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant from February 24 to March 31, 2022 during the seizure of the station by representatives of the Russian Armed Forces and units of the Russian Guard.
Act on the preliminary agreement with the employees Rosatom, the suspect committed a robbery. He ordered the removal of valuable equipment and other property, loading it into military vehicles and transporting it to the territory of Belarus. Other property that could not be removed was ordered destroyed. The damage caused is estimated at 1.038 billion Hryvnia.
We would like to remind you that earlier the Security Service and the Office of the Prosecutor General collected evidence on two Russian citizens who organized the disconnection of the Zaporozhye Nuclear Power Plant from the unified energy system of Ukraine.
Today, on the anniversary of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant disaster, which occurred on April 26, 1986, President Volodymyr Zelensky called on the world to put pressure on Russia to ensure the liberation of the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant from Russian occupiers.
Source: korrespondent
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