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According to a report by China News Service citing German media on August 14, nearly two years after the explosion of the Nord Stream natural gas pipeline, the German Federal Prosecutor's Office issued the first arrest warrant for a suspect in June this year. The suspect is Ukrainian citizen Vladimir Z.

This aerial photo released by the Danish Ministry of Defense on September 27, 2022 shows a leak in the Nord Stream natural gas pipeline (Source: Xinhua News Agency)

According to the investigation, two other Ukrainian citizens, including a woman, are considered suspects who may have installed the explosive device on the pipeline as divers.

Poland confirmed on the 14th that it had received a European arrest warrant issued by the German Federal Prosecutor's Office against the Ukrainian suspect in June.

German investigators believe Vladimir Z's most recent whereabouts were west of Warsaw, Poland, the report said. He has not yet been arrested.

On August 14 local time, Anna Adamiak, spokesperson for the Polish Attorney General's Office, commented on German media reports that Germany had issued the first wanted warrant in the Nord Stream pipeline explosion case, saying that the Ukrainian man Vladimir Z, wanted by Germany, has left Poland and returned to Ukraine.

Anna Adamiak said that after receiving the arrest warrant, the Polish prosecutor's office must confirm the suspect's place of residence. According to information obtained by the prosecutor's office from the Polish border guards, the border guards who checked Vladimir Z at the border crossing did not know that he was a wanted criminal, which means that the warrant was not entered into the search database.

The Nord Stream natural gas pipeline starts from Russia and reaches Germany via the bottom of the Baltic Sea. On September 26, 2022, the pipeline exploded and leaked a large amount of natural gas. The investigation found that three of the four pipelines leaked, with a total of four leak points located in the waters near Sweden and Denmark. After the explosion, Denmark, Sweden and Germany launched investigations respectively. Sweden and Denmark stopped the investigation at the beginning of this year, while Germany is still continuing.

Jimu News integrates Global Times, China News Service, and CCTV News

(Source: Jimu News)