Polish Court Rules Not to Extradite Ukrainian Suspect in Nord Stream Sabotage Case
Photo: “Spirit of Europe” sign promoting the Nord Stream gas pipeline project in Tallinn, Estonia, May 19, 2014. Credit: Pjotr Mahhonin / Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International.
A Polish court has refused to extradite Ukrainian national Volodymyr Z. to Germany, where he is accused of involvement in the sabotage of the Nord Stream gas pipelines, Orda.kz reports, citing The Kyiv Independent.
TVP reported this on October 16.
Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk confirmed that the suspect had been released from custody, commenting briefly:
Polish court denied extradition to Germany of a Ukrainian national suspected of blowing up Nord Stream 2 and released him from custody. And rightly so. The case is closed.
The decision comes amid ongoing tensions surrounding the Nord Stream explosions, which destroyed critical gas pipelines connecting Russia and Germany beneath the Baltic Sea and sparked a wave of international accusations.
The 46-year-old suspect was detained in September in east-central Poland. According to German investigators, he allegedly assisted in placing explosives on the pipelines during a covert operation conducted from a rented sailing yacht that departed from Rostock.
The vessel was reportedly obtained through intermediaries using forged German documents.
Poland’s refusal follows a similar decision by Italy’s Supreme Court, which on October 15 halted the extradition of another Ukrainian national, Serhii K., sought by Germany on related charges.
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