A former employee of the Ukrainian Security Service (SBU) office in the Autonomous Republic of Crimea and now an employee of the Russian FSB, who was involved in the torture of Crimean Tatar Renat Paralamov in September 2017, has been notified by Ukrainian law enforcers of suspicion in committing a number of crimes, the press service of the Crimean Prosecutor's Office has reported.

"On November 1, 2017, investigators of the main office of the National Police in the Autonomous Republic of Crimea and Sevastopol, in accordance with the procedure established by law, notified the former senior detective for particularly important cases of the main department for combating corruption and organized crime of the SBU's main office in the Autonomous Republic of Crimea of the suspicion," the Crimean Prosecutor's Office reported on Thursday, November 3.

The prosecutor's office recalled that on September 13, 2017, FSB officers illegally penetrated into Paralamov's house to conduct the searches. After the searches, law enforcers took him to an unknown direction, where the man was physically and psychologically pressured, and also tortured with electric shock. The purpose of these actions by representatives of the Russian special service was to receive evidence from Paralamov about the shelter of explosives and ammunition, the dissemination of extremist materials on the Internet and giving false testimony with respect to his friends and strangers.

In this regard, the Crimean Prosecutor's Office is in charge of procedural management of the pre-trial investigation in criminal proceedings on the grounds of criminal offenses envisaged by Article 127 (torture), Article 146 (illegal deprivation of liberty or abduction) and Article 162 (violation of the inviolability of the home) of the Criminal Code of Ukraine.