A group of unknown armed people calling themselves the Anti-corruption bureau captured an office building in Garmatnaya Street in Kiev, Magnoliya-TV reports.
A police squad and a group of experts arrived immediately after the call. The eye-witnesses say that three men blocked the entrance and others ran inside. After that a few men ran out of the building and escaped on a car waiting for them. According to preliminary information, two people in the building were injured. A police operation is held in the city.
165. The attempt to capture the office and property of the Rossotrudnichestvo failed. Kiev, 23.03.2014
On March 23 in Kiev a group of men calling themselves the Maidan 11th sotnia (squad) made an attempt to penetrate a building, rent by the Russian Federation for the Russian Centre of Science and Culture (RSSC) in the capital of Ukraine, the web site of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs reports.
These people stated that they wanted to use the building and the equipment and property inside belonging to the Russian Federation for setting their headquarters.
They also threatened to the present Ukrainian citizens warning them not to cooperate with Russia in any way. At the same time a RSSC car was stolen. Only after the Russian embassy and the Russian Centre of Science and Culture asked the headquarters of the Ukrainian Ministry of Internal Affairs to interfere, the group left the RSCC building and soon returned the stolen car, the Foreign Ministry reports.
166. Korolevskaya’s estate was captured by armed ‘corruption fighters’. The Kiev Region, 23.03.2014
People who burst into former official Natalya Korolevskaya’s home called themselves representatives of some ‘Anti-corruption Committee’.
‘Representatives the Anti-corruption Committee’ rushed today morning into a house, situated in Lesniky village in the Kiev Region, which according to their information belongs to Natalya Korolevskaya, a former Minister of Social Policy, TSN reports.
One of the men, conducting a search, said that all the documents found would be sent to the Anti-corruption Committee. At the same time the visitors claimed that they were not raiders and came to seize documents proving the former minister’s corruption ties.