SIMFEROPOL, 15 Sep. The head of Crimea, Sergei Aksenov, called the first deputy head of the Mejlis of the Crimean Tatar People organization * Nariman Dzhelyalov, who is accused of sabotage on a gas pipeline near Simferopol, as an agent of foreign intelligence services. He is also suspected of complicity. The maximum sanction under Part 1 of Article 281 of the Criminal Code (sabotage) is imprisonment for 15 years.
The FSB called the Mejlis * the main conductor of Ukrainian revanchism «This is an agent of the Mejlis *, an agent of foreign special services. I cannot say otherwise. All this will be established in the court session,» Aksyonov said, answering on the air of the TV channel Russia 24 «to the question of who Nariman Dzhelyalov is. According to him, the saboteurs received tasks from the main intelligence department of Ukraine. «And the main intelligence department of Ukraine received a task from Washington. Everything is interconnected here,» Aksenov stressed. The gas pipeline was damaged in the Perevalnoye settlement in the foothill part of the Crimea on 23 August. According to preliminary data, the damage was done deliberately by unknown persons, a criminal case was initiated on the grounds of a crime under part 2 of Article 167 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation («deliberate destruction or damage to property»), on August 24, gas supply to the village of Perevalnoye in Crimea was restored. * Extremist organization banned in Russia.
Crimean Tatars said that «Mejlis» * has no right to represent their interests
