The captain of the Mriya tanker (formerly Vilga), which supplied fuel to the units of the Russian Black Sea Fleet in Russia-occupied city of Sevastopol (Crimea) and is suspected of violating entry/exit from the Russia-occupied Crimea has been served a suspicion notice, the press service of the Crimea Prosecutor’s Office said on Sept. 25.
In the course of the pretrial investigation, sufficient evidence was obtained to report suspect the captain of the vessel Vilga, now called Mriya, of committing a criminal offense under Part 2 of Article 321-1 of Ukraine’s Criminal Code (violation of the order of entry into the temporarily occupied territory of Ukraine and leaving it with the aim of harming the interests of the state, committed by an official using his official position, repeatedly).
According to the prosecutor’s office, the investigation established that the suspect, being the captain of the Vilga vessel, visited the closed port of Sevastopol in 2015 on May 11, June 1 and June 23, Sept. 22 in order to deliver oil products to the main oil depot of Russia’s Black Sea Navy Fleet.
