This was reported on Facebook by the press service of the "Prosecutor's Office of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea" created by Kiev.

"Suspicions have been reported ... to the" Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Republic of Crimea "(at the time of the crime) and" to the head of the State Council of the Republic of Crimea "of committing a large-scale and systematic appropriation of public property ... (violation of the laws and customs of war)," in the statement.

In April 2018, the Prosecutor General's Office of Ukraine completed an absentee investigation into Crimean officials.

Crimea became a Russian region after a referendum was held there in March 2014, in which most of the inhabitants of the peninsula spoke out in favor of reunification with Russia.