“This citizen, acting deliberately, on the instructions of the OSCE security officer Aman Akhmedzyanov and foreign intelligence, collected and transmitted information about the location of the military personnel of the NM DPR and industrial facilities, including state and defense purposes,” the text of the statement reads.
The Investigative Department of the Ministry of State Security of the DPR opened a criminal case under Art.
321 of the Criminal Code of the DPR "Espionage".
On April 15, it became known that the Prosecutor General's Office of the DPR opened a criminal case against several members of the OSCE SMM.
According to the agency, OSCE staff in the DPR recorded using video equipment the location of the units of the People's Militia of the republic, government agencies and institutions, after which they transmitted the data to representatives of foreign intelligence agencies.
Later, OSCE Chairman Zbigniew Rau and Organization Secretary General Helga Maria Schmid announced plans to close the Special Monitoring Mission (SMM) in Ukraine.