Thirty crewmembers of Arctic Sunrise detained - Markin
MOSCOW. Sept 25 (Interfax) - Investigators from the Investigations Committee are prosecuting thirty crewmembers of the Arctic Sunrise in connection with their attack on the Prirazlomnaya oilrig, Vladimir Markin from the Investigations Committee reported.
"In the early hours of September 25, investigators from the Investigations Committee's Department for the Northwestern Federal District detained thirty crewmembers of the Arctic Sunrise as suspects of an attack against the Prirazlomnaya oilrig, about which a criminal case has been opened based on Article 91 of the Russian Code of Criminal Procedure," Markin told Interfax on Wednesday.
Three of these people, who are Russian citizens, have been questioned, he said.
"The foreign citizens who were aboard the vessel have not been questioned. The investigators are working on providing them with interpreters because they cannot be questioned without interpreters," Markin said.