Five Crimean judges convicted of high treason

The Prosecutor's Office of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea and the city of Sevastopol has secured a verdict against five "servants of Themis" from the peninsula. They were found guilty in absentia of high treason (Part 1 of Article 111 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine).

This was reported by the press service of the Prosecutor's Office of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea and Sevastopol.

Each convict was sentenced to 13 years in prison with confiscation of all property.

The investigation established that these persons, being citizens of Ukraine, after the occupation of Crimea, went over to the side of the enemy and voluntarily began working in the illegally created judicial bodies of the Russian Federation, thus contributing to the occupation regime.

Prosecutors proved that after the occupation of the Crimean peninsula, the convicts, having betrayed their oath of allegiance to the Ukrainian people, went over to the enemy. They took up positions of 'judges' in the illegally created occupation structures, in particular in the Twenty-first Arbitration Court of Appeal of the Russian Federation, the Saksky District Court of the Republic of Crimea, and the Gagarinsky District Court of Sevastopol.

By administering 'justice' on behalf of and in the interests of the Russian Federation, the convicts assisted the aggressor state in conducting subversive activities against Ukraine and ensured the establishment and strengthening of the occupation authorities on the peninsula.

Earlier, two judges in Crimea were investigated for collaboration in favor of the Russian Federation. They illegally convicted criminals and supported the occupation authorities on the peninsula.

Based on the SBU materials, two more occupation judges will be tried in the temporarily occupied Crimea. Law enforcement officers have completed an investigation into two collaborators who legalize the occupation policy of Russia and pass illegal sentences on Crimeans.

It concerns the head of the so-called Leninsky District Court, who sentenced Crimean activist Fevzi Sagandzhi to 10 years in prison in a case fabricated by the FSB. The second offender voluntarily accepted the position of a judge of the so-called "Arbitration Court of the Republic of Crimea" in 2022. According to the investigation, she considered at least five thousand cases in favor of the aggressor state.

Катерина Глушко