Investigators are searching for Babakov's link to VS Energy
The State Bureau of Investigation has accused Deputy Chairman of the State Duma of the Russian Federation Alexander Babakov of supporting federal laws in favor of Ukraine's occupied territories joining Russia, according to NV.
Investigators found that he had previously supported all illegal decisions related to violating territorial integrity and military operations.
The DBR stated that the Russian deputy's deliberate actions caused numerous casualties among Ukrainian military personnel and civilians, as well as damage and destruction of civilian, critical, and military infrastructure in Ukraine.
During the pre-trial investigation based on Part 3 Art. 110 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine (encroachment on the territorial integrity and inviolability of Ukraine), Babakov was reported as a suspect. The article carries a penalty of life imprisonment and property confiscation.
Additionally, the Bureau's investigators are looking into the possible involvement of the Deputy Chairman of the State Duma in the activities of the VS Energy group, which owns critical infrastructure facilities in Ukraine.
Recently, the SBU, in conjunction with the State Bureau of Investigation, conducted searches at VS Energy, which controls oblenergo in Ukraine.
In May of this year, the draft Scheme reported that the DBR was conducting a pre-trial investigation under five articles of the Criminal Code in relation to VS Energy, which indirectly belongs to Babakov, Giner, and Voevodin, representatives of the Luzhniki group close to the Kremlin.
As the prosecutor of the Office clarified to journalists, Prosecutor General Roman Tulin reviewed the version according to which a group of citizens of the Russian Federation, close to the leadership of the aggressor country, acquired assets of critical infrastructure and other commercial facilities in Ukraine through various agreements and fraud.
So far, the beneficiaries of the group are officially considered to be Latvian citizens Willis Dambins, Arturs Altbergs, Valts Vigants, as well as German citizens Oleg Sizerman and Marina Yaroslavskaya.
Previously, the CEO of VS Energy Ukraine Igor Sudakov stated that "for more than eight years, the shareholders of the VS Energy group have been EU citizens. According to Sudakov, "Alexander Babakov is not and has never been a shareholder of the VS Energy group."
The court has ordered the arrest of 5 oblenergos that were controlled by Russians close to the Kremlin.
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