A police lieutenant who headed the occupation police department in Crimea was sentenced to 14 years

A former Ukrainian law enforcement officer, who joined Russian authorities after the occupation of Crimea and continues to head one of the occupation police departments, was sentenced to 14 years in prison with confiscation of property.

According to the Prosecutor’s Office of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea and the City of Sevastopol, the court handed down the verdict in absentia.

Prior to the occupation of the Crimean Peninsula, he worked as an investigative officer in the criminal investigation division of the Kerch City Department of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine in the Autonomous Republic of Crimea.

According to the prosecutor’s office, in 2014 he voluntarily joined the ranks of the Russian occupiers. He was initially appointed head of the criminal investigation unit at one of the police departments in Kerch, and in 2017 he became the head of that unit.

In June 2022, the law enforcement officer agreed to head the so-called Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs department for the Leninsky District of Crimea. He remains in this position to this day.

The prosecutor’s office has not disclosed the convicted man’s name. However, according to media reports, the individual in question is Igor Nistryan.

The court found the man guilty of treason and collaboration. He was sentenced to 14 years in prison with confiscation of property.

In addition, the former police officer was stripped of his special rankof “police lieutenant ” and barred for 12 years from holding positions in state authorities, local self-government bodies, and law enforcement agencies of Ukraine.

Recently, another verdict was handed down against a former deputy of the Verkhovna Rada of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea of the 6th convocation, who was sentenced in absentia to 13 years in prison for aiding the occupation of the peninsula. The court proved his involvement in actions aimed at Russia’s annexation of Crimea.

Ірина Глухова