June 24, 2025, 1:23 p.m.
(Photo: National Police in Odesa region)
The Chornomorsk City Court of Odesa Region approved a plea agreement on kidnapping by misappropriation of authority between a prosecutor and a member of a public organization who, together with his accomplices, posed as a military TCC.
The court sentenced the man to three years' imprisonment, but commuted the actual prison term to two years' probation.
The man was a member of the NGO Ukraine is a Mother. He and two of his accomplices, also members of this organization, armed themselves with traumatic weapons and airsoft guns, got into a minibus and on January 12, 2025, on the road near the city of Chornomorsk, attacked a man who was riding a bicycle. They stopped the cyclist, beat him, and forced him into their car, but he called the police and had to be released.
The police seized from the detainees the car in which they held the victim, a certificate of membership in a public organization and other material evidence of interest to the investigation. The court ordered the car and the ID to be returned to the owners.
In July 2024, the Center for Public Investigations made a film "Guarding the Odesa Cauldron " about civil society organizations. It combined three textual investigations about more than 30 civil society organizations, including the NGO "Ukraine is a Mother":
Already in September 2024, after an investigation by the CPR, prosecutors exposed the deputy head of the "Law Enforcement Assistance Unit" for corruption. He is suspected of helping to evade the mobilization of persons liable for military service.
Кирило Бойко