A court has granted the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) access to the mobile-telephone records of the "head" of the self-proclaimed "Donetsk People's Republic" (DPR), Oleksandr Zakharchenko, from March 1, 2014.
The court issued the relevant ruling on April 21, Ukrainian News Agency reports.
According to the ruling, Zakharchenko was informed on July 31, 2014 that he was suspected of committing a crime punishable under Section 1 of Article 258-3 (creation of a terrorist organization) of the Penal Code.
Zakharchenko was declared wanted on the same day because investigators were unable to establish his actual location.
The court granted law enforcement officers permission to detain Zakharchenko on August 1, 2014.
The Security Service of Ukraine has established the mobile telephone number (in the MTS mobile telephone network) that Zakharchenko has been using from 2014 to the present.
The court granted the Security Service of Ukraine access to records of telephone calls made from this number from March 1, 2014 to March 30, 2017.
As Ukrainian News Agency earlier reported, the court authorized detention and arrest of Zakharchenko in February.
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