National Police sends Interpol data on suspected collaborators who fled to EU

The New Voice of Ukraine
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An officer of the Ukrainian Border Guard stands at a checkpoint
An officer of the Ukrainian Border Guard stands at a checkpoint

The National Police of Ukraine has started submitting information to Interpol about Ukrainians who have fled to the European Union claiming to be refugees, but who are in fact suspected of collaborating with Russian invasion forces in Ukraine.

Serhiy Bolvinov, the head of the investigative department of the Main Directorate of the Ukrainian National Police in Kharkiv Oblast said not all collaborators are fleeing to Russia – some are hiding in Europe, claiming that they are Ukrainians affected by the war.

"That's why we decided to get them there as well,” Bolvinov said in a post on Facebook on July 14.

“We enter everyone who was involved in cooperation with the Russians during the occupation into a database, and submit applications (to extradite them) to Interpol. We’re informing our foreign colleagues that these people are not ‘victims of war’ or political refugees, as they try to appear to be there, but (that they are) suspected of committing criminal offences in Ukraine."

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Bolvinov said that legally these were the grounds to return the suspected collaborators to the territory of Ukraine and to try them according to Ukrainian legislation.

"We’re helped in tracking (the suspected collaborators) down by real Ukrainian (patriots) who provide investigators and inspectors with information about the location of fugitive collaborators," he added.

Interpol has already been given information about 25 such fugitives, Bolvinov said. He appealed to the public to provide more information to the National Police about suspected collaborators who might be hiding abroad.“

Write to us – give us the data about such people and the country in which they are hiding, and we will do our job,” he said.

“We won't give them peace even abroad. Evil will be punished.”

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