10 former prosecutors from Crimea charged with treason

10 former prosecutors from Crimea will be tried for treason.

This was reported by the press service of the Prosecutor's Office of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea and Sevastopol.

The post says that the autonomy's prosecutor's office sent indictments to the court against 10 former employees of the Crimean prosecutor's office. They are charged with treason (Part 1 of Article 111 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine) and face up to 15 years in prison.

The investigation has established that after the occupation of the peninsula, the defendants betrayed their oath of allegiance to the people of Ukraine and joined the enemy. In particular, two of them were appointed as "heads of departments" and two as "department prosecutors" in the occupation prosecutor's office of the Republic of Crimea. At the same time, one of the defendants headed the "Prosecutor's Office of the Nizhnegorsk District of the Republic of Crimea", two took the positions of "Deputy Prosecutors of Yalta and the Black Sea District" and three - "Assistant Prosecutors of Yalta, Kerch and Bakhchisaray District". Disregarding the requirements of the Constitution and laws of Ukraine, the accused performed the powers of the occupation prosecutors, thus ensuring their functioning on the peninsula. By such actions, the "prosecutors" assisted the aggressor state and its representatives in conducting subversive activities against Ukraine.

The special pre-trial investigation was carried out by the second investigative department (based in Kherson) of the territorial department of the State Bureau of Investigation located in Melitopol.

Earlier it was reported that five more occupation judges from Crimea were convicted in absentia for treason. Thus, prosecutors proved in court that after the occupation of the peninsula, the convicts betrayed their oath of allegiance to the people of Ukraine and joined the enemy.

Also, the former deputy head of the investigation department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine in Sevastopol is suspected of treason.