The government of Crimea is ready to draw to responsibility under the criminal code of speculators destabilizing the situation in the region during the period of a state of emergency, said the head of the region Sergey Aksenov at the meeting about providing customers the region's motor fuel.

The Crimea in the night of Sunday was completely de-energized because of the erosion in the South Ukraine transmission towers supplying electricity to the Peninsula. In the region was introduced a state of emergency until full power is restored. The traders of the Crimea and the Government of the region on the night of Thursday have signed an agreement under which market players have pledged to freeze fuel prices and the Council of Ministers has expressed readiness to pay damages.

"To use an emergency situation to get profit in Crimea, no one will. The government of the Republic decided at the time of the criminal law have an opportunity to involve persons who during the period of emergency in the Peninsula through its actions destabilizing the situation in the Republic ", - quotes Aksenova Department of information and press service of the head of the Republic of Crimea.

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