Investigators from the National Police of the ARC and Sevastopol reported a change in suspicion to two former employees of the Security Service of Ukraine, and now employees of the Russian FSB in annexed Crimea. They are suspected of torture over a member of Euromaidan. It is reported by the Prosecutor's Office of the ARC. “The investigation established that in early February 2015, in the territory of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea, the so-called FSB officers, after unlawful detention, torture and torture of a pro-Ukrainian activist, a participant in Euromaidan, forced him to plead guilty to a crime he did not commit. Namely, in “application 18. 02. 2014 bodily injuries to an employee of the Berkut special forces on Independence Square in Kiev based on ideological hostility and enmity, ”the press service explained. According to the agency, the suspect is charged with " According to the sources of Crimea. Realities in law enforcement agencies, this is a case of a convict previously convicted by a Russian court in Crimea of \u200b\u200bEuromaidan’s Alexander Kostenko, and former SBU officers are Andrei Tishenin and Arthur Shambazov. Former political prisoner, Crimean euromaidan resident Alexander Kostenko said earlier that he still has health problems after injuries sustained during torture and beatings by Russian security forces. Sentenced to imprisonment Kostenko was serving his sentence in a penal colony of the Russian city of Kirovo-Chepetsk and was released on August 3 after his term of imprisonment ended..

A Ukrainian from Simferopol court controlled by Moscow in May 2015 sentenced him to four years and two months in prison, allegedly for injuring an employee of the Crimean " After consideration of the appeal, the term was reduced to three years and six months in prison. Crimean human rights group reported that Kostenko’s father publicly reported the torture his son suffered, after which he disappeared. Mother and brother live in Simferopol. Kostenko pleaded not guilty.