"This situation facilitated the concentration of criminal elements around the enterprise and, as a consequence, has resulted in conflicts over sharing the assets raised from the sale of products," Naumenko said.
Unidentified persons on October 9 fired at a car with employees of the Arcelor Mittal Kryvyi Rih steel plant (Dnipropetrovsk region) on the Kryvyi Rih – Mykolaiv highway in Dnipropetrovsk region.
Ukrainian News learned this from a statement by the Dnipropetrovsk regional office of the Ministry of Interior Affairs.
According to the statement, the Toyota car owned by the enterprise was shot from a hunting rifle near the village of Kudashevka in Dnipropetrovsk region at 19:30 on October 9.
“In the car there was a driver and two auditors of the enterprise, who citizens of India,” the statement reads.
The statement reads that one of the passengers got a wound of the right shank. The passenger has been hospitalized.
Anatolii Naumenko, the head of the Dnipropetrovsk regional office of the Ministry of Interior Affairs, supervised the investigation on the spot.
In the opinion of Naumenko, mass theft of products has come into a practice at the enterprise lately. However, the facts were concealed from public and policy.
“This situation facilitated the concentration of criminal elements around the enterprise and, as a consequence, has resulted in conflicts over sharing the assets raised from the sale of products,” reads a statement by the PR center of the regional office of the Ministry of Interior Affairs, citing Naumenko.
According to the statement, Naumenko assesses the incidents as a challenge to police.
Police have instituted a criminal case under article 15 and article 115 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine (murderous assault).
As Ukrainian News earlier reported, unidentified persons in the night between July 31 and August 1 committed an attempt to blast the garden of the house of Volodymyr Sheremet, the head of the administration for production of the Arcelor Mittal Kryvyi Rih steel plant.
