From June to July this year, a man abducted metal fences from graves and handed them to the point of reception of scrap metal, the press service of the State Unitary Enterprise in the Kharkov region reports..
He was informed of the suspicion of committing a crime, provided for. 3 items. 297 (abuse of the grave, other burial site or over the body of the deceased) of the Criminal Code of Ukraine.
Arrested arrested, he faces a sentence of imprisonment for up to 7 years.
As the head of the Kiev police department Oleksandr Kotsar noted, the issue of bringing to justice the citizen who organized the reception center. Investigators qualify his actions under Art.. 213 (violation of the procedure for carrying out operations with scrap metal) of the Criminal Code of Ukraine. According to the sanction of the article, the maximum penalty for committing this crime is to restrict freedom to one year.