MOSCOW, August 13 (RAPSI) - The Russian Investigative Committee could extend the list of wanted Ukrainian officials, politicians and business people to include those who sponsor the Ukrainian army in the conflict area, Izvestia reports Wednesday.

“Some business people are quite open about providing substantial funding and participation in the military operation. Also, we have evidence that some of them have links with the criminal world,” the newspaper quotes the source.

The list could include oligarch and head of the Donetsk Region, Serhyi Taruta; Verkhovna Rada member and leader of the Radical Party, Oleh Lyashko; as well as Kiev businessmen Oleksandr and Vyacheslav Konstantinovsky.

In late June, Interior Minister Arsen Avakov and Dnepropetrovsk Region Governor Ihor Kolomoisky, one of the alleged sponsors of the Ukrainian army, were put on the Interpol wanted list in the course of a criminal investigation into the use of banned means and methods of war in southeastern Ukraine. The case was opened by the Russian Investigative Committee.

As the head of the Investigative Committee, Alexander Bastrykin announced that the list included about 40 names of service personnel who were involved in artillery attacks on civilians.