Building a career in the occupation: two Kherson ex-police officers received suspicion

Under the procedural supervision of the Kherson Regional Prosecutor's Office, two former police officers from Kherson region were served in absentia with a notice of suspicion of treason committed under martial law.

This was reported by the Kherson Regional Prosecutor's Office.

According to the investigation, the suspects began supporting the enemy after the full-scale invasion of Russia. In 2022, both went to "serve" the occupiers in the pseudo-law enforcement agencies established in the Genichesk district.

One of them received the position of "acting deputy head of the department of the Genichesk district police department" from the occupiers . Later, he was "promoted" to head the so-called "department of the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs" in Ivanivka. Another ex-police officer took the position of "acting inspector of the district inspectors' department of the Genichesk district police department".

The suspects, according to law enforcement, contribute to the establishment and functioning of the law enforcement system of the aggressor state in the occupied settlements of Kherson region.

Earlier, law enforcement officers sent to court an indictment against a former police officer of one of the district police departments of the Kherson regional police on the fact of collaboration. Investigators found that the man had voluntarily joined the law enforcement agency illegally created by the occupation authorities - the Holoprystan District Police Department - and was promoted to the position of "acting assistant investigator."

Prior to that, prosecutors of the Odesa Regional Prosecutor's Office sent an indictment to court against a former employee of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine on the fact of high treason. Law enforcement officers established that from March to August 2022, the former police officer collected and transmitted information on the socio-political situation in Ukraine and the law enforcement and security forces of Ukraine for representatives of the occupying state's special service.