Oleg Yeltsov

The journalist of "Ukraine criminal" web-newspaper Oleg Yeltsov was summoned for the interrogations in Security Service of Ukraine on Tuesday and Wednesday, June, 26-27, 2001 in Kiev. The Investigation department of Security Service instituted proceeding against the journalist in view of the fact of the state secrets disclosure in the Yeltsov's article contributed on "Ukraine criminal" web-site cripo.com.ua. The article run the version on the former Security Service Chief Leonid Derkach's interests in criminal world and on the connected with them collision of the Security Service and Army Reconnaissance. The case started under clause 67 of the Criminal Code, which provides that "disclosure of the dates, implying a state secret... amerces with an 2-5 years imprisonment". Photo by UNIAN