A Ukrainian diver wanted by Germany for his alleged involvement in the has been detained in Poland, his lawyer and Polish prosecutors said on Tuesday.
The man, identified by German authorities as Volodymyr Z., is suspected of involvement in that largely the severed Nord Stream gas pipelines running from Russia to Germany at the bottom of the Baltic Sea.
“This morning, he was detained in a town near Warsaw,” the man’s lawyer Tymoteusz Paprocki said, with Warsaw’s regional prosecutor’s office spokesperson later confirming the news.
Paprocki said that his client would fight against his transfer to Germany, saying the European arrest warrant against him was inadmissible considering .
“The attack on Nord Stream infrastructure concerns one of the pipeline’s owners, [state-owned gas giant] , which directly finances the military operations in Ukraine,” he said.
Paprocki said his clinet had done “nothing wrong” and had not committed “any crime to the detriment of Germany.”
Last month, , suspected of coordinating the attacks. He too plans to appeal his extradition to Germany, after a lower court ordered his transfer.
The 2022 explosions disabled three out of four . Russia blamed the US, Britain and Ukraine for the blasts.
Germany, Denmark and Sweden all opened investigations into the incident, with the Danish and Swedish probes closing earlier this year without naming suspects.
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