Ex-police officer from Kherson region punished for working for Russians

Oleksandr Komar, a former senior lieutenant of the Kherson Patrol Police, was found guilty of collaboration.

According to Mist, the Kherson City Court issued the verdict.

"The Kherson City Court found Oleksandr Komar guilty in absentia under Part 7 of Article 111-1 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine (collaboration) and sentenced him to 14 years in prison with confiscation of all his property. He was also stripped of his special rank of "senior police lieutenant, " the media reported.

According to the investigation, after the start of the full-scale invasion, the man refused to evacuate from Kherson, and in June 2022 he voluntarily cooperated with the occupation authorities and was appointed a senior inspector of the Road Patrol Service company of the State Road Safety Inspectorate in the occupation Main Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Kherson region.

As witnesses told the court, Komar openly supported the actions of the Russian Federation, agitated his friends to obtain a Russian passport and work for the occupation authorities.

Earlier, the 38-year-old former deputy head and head of the department of the Holoprystan Correctional Colony No. 7 was sentenced to imprisonment for organizing the forced transfer and deportation of Ukrainian citizens from the Kherson region. In September 2022, during the occupation of the Kherson region, the 38-year-old man agreed to cooperate with the Russian occupiers and was appointed by them as the head of the Holoprystan penal colony. Since October 2022, he has been responsible for the temporary placement of convicts from the colonies of the right-bank part of the Kherson region.

Also on trial will be a former employee of a penal colony in Kherson, who in October-November 2022, together with representatives of the occupation authorities, organized the transfer of convicts to other colonies, in particular to Holoprystan Penal Colony No. 7, and later the forced deportation of more than 1500 people to Russia and the temporarily occupied territories.

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