Ukrainian arrested at German court's request in Nord Stream pipeline sabotage investigation

A Ukrainian man suspected of involvement in the sabotage of the Nord Stream 1 and 2 gas pipelines on September 26, 2022, was arrested by Italian police on the night of Wednesday, August 20, to Thursday, August 21. The man had been the subject of a European arrest warrant issued by the investigating judge of the German Federal Court of Justice since August 18 and is expected to be transferred to Germany. He was arrested in the province of Rimini, Italy, where Italian police said he was on vacation. The German prosecutor's office, in charge of the investigation into the explosion of the two gas pipelines, announced his arrest on Thursday.

The 49-year-old man, identified simply as Serhii K. due to German privacy regulations, "was part of a group of people who placed explosives on the Nord Stream 1 and Nord Stream 2 gas pipelines near the [Danish] island of Bornholm in September 2022, " the German Federal Prosecutor's Office, based in Karlsruhe, said in a statement. The defendant is suspected of being one of the coordinators of the operation. For transportation, he and his accomplices used a sailboat that departed from Rostock [in Germany] . The yacht had previously been rented to a German company through intermediaries, using false identity papers."

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