Crimean prosecutor jailed for 15 years for state council

The court found the former prosecutor of the Prosecutor's Office of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea guilty in absentia of high treason and sentenced him to 15 years in prison with confiscation of property.

This was reported by the Office of the Prosecutor General.

The investigation proved that in April 2014, immediately after the beginning of the occupation of the peninsula, the former Ukrainian prosecutor sided with the aggressor state. He accepted the offer of representatives of the occupation administration of the Russian Federation and took the position of the so-called "prosecutor". Since 2018, the convict has held senior positions in the illegally established "prosecutor's offices" of Crimea, organized the work of his subordinates and coordinated the activities of the occupation law enforcement agencies. The case was considered in absentia, as the accused is hiding in the temporarily occupied territory.

The special pre-trial investigation was carried out by investigators of the Territorial Department of the State Bureau of Investigation located in Lviv, with the operational support of the Security Service of Ukraine.

Earlier, the European Court of Human Rights began consideration of cases filed in 2017 by the representative body of the Crimean Tatars - the Mejlis of the Crimean Tatar people, regional mejlises and individual citizens. These are complaints about the actions of the Russian authorities, which, after the occupation of Crimea, banned the activities of the Mejlis, recognizing it as an "extremist organization."

According to the Chairman of the Mejlis Refat Chubarov, such a ban was a blow to the entire system of national self-government of the Crimean Tatars. ''The illegal ban of the Mejlis of the Crimean Tatar people has made it impossible for it to function. This has eliminated any possibility for its work in the occupied Crimea,'' he said.

Катерина Глушко