Former Crimean prosecutor sentenced to 12 years for cooperation with Russians

The Dniprovsky District Court of Kyiv has sentenced a former senior prosecutor of the Krasnoperekopsk Interdistrict Prosecutor's Office of Crimea to 12 years in prison under the article on high treason.

According to the Center for Investigative Journalism, it is 40-year-old Maxim Perepylitsa, who has been working in the structure of the Prosecutor's Office of the ARC since 2006. As it was established in court, in the spring of 2014, he "broke his oath and joined the service of the Russian occupiers - as a senior assistant to the Krasnoperekopsk Interdistrict Prosecutor of the illegally created 'Prosecutor's Office of the Republic of Crimea'." In the fall of 2023, Maksym Perepylytsia was appointed acting "prosecutor of the Pervomaisky district" in the Russian prosecutor's office of Crimea.

According to the CJR, citing the materials of the Ukrainian investigation, Perepelytsia "repeatedly participated in criminal cases, ensured the proper functioning of the illegally created 'prosecutor's offices'."

Perepelytsia was sentenced in absentia. To date, he has not commented publicly on this.

Earlier, former Crimean judge Irina Erokhina was sentenced to 12 years in prison. She ruled against Ukrainian citizens for political reasons, in particular, she convicted Crimean Tatars and pro-Ukrainian activists. She was sentenced by the Sviatoshynskyi District Court of Kyiv. In addition, the court convicted Natalia Lysytska, a servicewoman of the 57th separate motorized infantry brigade of the operational command "South", in absentia, of aiding the aggressor state. The woman was dismissed from military service, and in June 2022, she was already distributing material aid from the occupiers in the amount of 10 thousand Russian rubles to residents of the Novokakhovka community.

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