Six Ukrainian citizens and one American have been arrested in India, accused of preparing terrorist attacks: according to authorities, they smuggled drone shipments from Ukraine to armed groups in Myanmar, writes Mandiner, citing the Indian Express.
The Ukrainian Foreign Ministry immediately came to the perpetrators’ defense and demanded consular access to the detainees, as was also the case when Ukrainians were detained in Hungary transporting a convoy of cash and gold worth nearly €80 million.
The question, as with the convoy, is whether the accused acted on their own initiative and obtained the drones, or whether the Ukrainian authorities were also involved.
“Collection of evidence, unravelling of criminal conspiracy, identification of accomplices and analysis of mobile data of the accused are aspects that justify remanding the accused in police custody,” observed Additional Judge Prashant Sharma of Patiala House Court in his order.
India’s National Investigation Agency (NIA) says the group was helping “ethnic armed groups” in their plans for terror strikes and warned of “cross-border threats.”
Specifically, the NIA stated the group was illegally ‘importing huge consignments of drones from Europe to Myanmar via India.”
Hungary is conducting its own investigation into the source of the more than €75 million it seized from the convoy, involving current and former Ukrainian military members. Given the cases of corruption swirling around Ukrainian President Zelensky, Budapest is also looking into where the money was headed, if any organized crime is involved, and if the funds were meant to fund the opposition here in Hungary or for Zelensky personally.
With this new case in India, PM Orbán, who has been directly threatened by Zelensky, and his government, will certainly want to look into any sort of planned terrorist activities in Hungary as well.
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