Ukraine's Foreign Ministry says local investigators have found no evidence of a crime in the actions of a Ukrainian citizen, who has been charged in the United States with operating a child pornography website.

Maksym Shynkarenko, a 33-year-old from the eastern Ukrainian city of Kharkiv was charged in New Jersey on Monday with founding and operating a Ukraine-based child pornography website that had customers around the world.

Shynkarenko was extradited from Thailand to the U.S. over the weekend.

The case is being tried in New Jersey because U.S. investigators first discovered Shynkarenko's website while investigating another individual in the state.

Foreign Ministry spokesman Oleksandr Dikusarov said Tuesday that Ukrainian investigators "did not find anything" that would constitute a crime in Shynkarenko's actions.