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Four former Berkut riot police officers who are now working in Ukraine's National Police were arrested on Thursday, June 23, the press secretary for the prosecutor general of Ukraine, Larysa Sarhan, reported on her Facebook page on Friday. "All the suspects were remanded in custody by court at the request of the public prosecutor," Sarhan wrote.

According to Sarhan, they are suspected of committing a number of crimes on Instytutska Street, Krepostny Lane and Hrushevskoho Street in Kyiv on February 18, 2014 in execution of a clearly criminal order. These crimes include actions aimed at illegal impeding meetings, rallies, marches and demonstrations; abuse of power resulting in serious consequences, causing grievous bodily harm to 35 citizens due to the use of special means; as well as committing an attempted murder of two or more persons at a preliminary arrangement by the group of persons.

One of the suspects is accused of having murdered one person during the violence, she added.

Sarhan said that the investigators of the PGO held a series of searches, during which weapons and ammunition and other items and things "that have evidentiary value in the pre-trial investigation in criminal proceedings" were found and seized at suspects' places of residence.

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