First deputy head of the occupation administration in Kherson was sentenced to 10 years

Thanks to the convincing evidence presented by the prosecutors of the Kherson Regional Prosecutor's Office, the court convicted a resident of Kherson. The man was found guilty of collaboration - voluntary cooperation with the occupation authorities.

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

The court sentenced the traitor to 10 years in prison with confiscation of all property. In addition, he is banned from holding any positions in government or providing public services for 15 years. Since the convict fled to the occupied territories a few days before the liberation of Kherson, the sentence was passed in absentia - the sentence will start to run from the moment of his actual detention.

Prosecutors proved that in May 2022, the man voluntarily became the 'first deputy head of the military-civilian administration of Kherson'. In an attempt to conceal his identity, he used a fictitious name, but this did not help him avoid identification.

In particular, in Kherson, the court found guilty in absentia a former city council official who voluntarily sided with Russia during the occupation of the city and was given a senior position in the illegally created occupation administration.

This is Iryna Chekhun, the former chief accountant of the Department of State Architectural and Construction Control of the Kherson City Council.

As the court found, in July 2022, while in occupied Kherson and having many years of experience in finance and budgeting, she agreed to cooperate with the occupation authorities. After submitting her application, she was appointed as the so-called "Head of the Revenue and Consolidated Budget of the Department of Budget and Finance" in the pseudo-organization "Kherson City State Administration". In this position, she was actually responsible for managing the budgetary flows of the captured city.

Катерина Глушко