An official from the vehicle fleet of the occupying Ministry of Internal Affairs was convicted in the Kherson region

A man was sentenced in absentia to 13 years in prison for working for an illegal law enforcement agency of the occupying authorities in the Kherson region. In August 2022, he voluntarily accepted the position of deputy head of the vehicle fleet at the so-called Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in the Kherson region.

This is stated in the verdict of the Kherson City Court.

<span> </span>The sentence will begin to run from the moment the convicted man is actually taken into custody. The seizure of his property remains in effect until the sentence is carried out.

<span>   </span>The court established that during the occupation of Kherson from March to July 2022, the Ukrainian citizen knowingly collaborated with the Russian occupation administration. According to the case file, on August 10 of that year, he officially took a job with a Russian-controlled pseudo-agency, where he was responsible for providing transportation for the region’s occupation police.

The man’s guilt was confirmed by eyewitness testimony, reports on the examination of electronic media, materials from the internet, and documents from the occupation authority regarding his appointment to the position. 

In particular, law enforcement officers found key evidence on a flash drive belonging to the occupation’s personnel department, which was seized during searches in November 2022—shortly after the de-occupation of Kherson. The drive contained lists of employees of the pseudo-agency and an order dated August 10, 2022, appointing the defendant at his own request.

Former colleagues from the Ukrainian police and a local auto mechanic testified against him in court.

Юлія Калабайда