Foreign Ministry: Two Ukrainians detained in Moscow for kidnapping

16:51, 09.10.2012 1 min read

Two Ukrainian citizens have been detained in Moscow on suspicion of kidnapping a person, the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry has reported.

Foreign Ministry spokesman Oleksandr Dykusarov said that the Ukrainians had been detained as part of the investigation of a criminal case under Part 2, Article 126 (kidnapping) and Part 3, Article 163 (extortion) of the Russian Criminal Code, which was opened on October 5.

"The criminal case is being overseen by the consular section of the [Ukrainian] Embassy [in Russia]," he said at a briefing in Kyiv on Tuesday.