Former employee of penal colony from Kherson fulfilled criminal orders of Russians for money

A former employee of the Northern Correctional Colony No. 90 defected to the enemy and carried out criminal orders and instructions of the occupants for money.

According to the Kherson Regional Prosecutor's Office, in 2022, while working as a junior inspector at the Northern Correctional Colony No. 90, the suspect defected to the enemy after the temporary occupation of part of the Kherson region. She took the position of "security department operator" in an occupier-controlled institution that was part of the Russian Federal Penitentiary Service and operated under the laws of the aggressor country. In this pseudo-position, the woman carried out criminal orders and instructions of the occupiers, for which she received a salary in rubles.

Under the procedural supervision of the Kherson Regional Prosecutor's Office, the former penal colony employee was served in absentia with a notice of suspicion of treason and collaboration.

Earlier, the court found a former employee of a penal colony guilty of high treason committed under martial law. The man was sentenced to 15 years in prison with confiscation of property and deprivation of his special rank of Major of Internal Service. While in the temporarily occupied territory of Kherson region, the man voluntarily agreed to work for the enemy in an illegally created law enforcement agency, which was part of the Federal Penitentiary Service of the Russian Federation and acted under the laws of the aggressor country.

The court also sentenced a resident of Kherson who voluntarily agreed to serve in the Russian police during the occupation. Police investigators also notified the "first deputy" of the illegally created by the occupiers "detention center" of suspicion of committing a war crime. The man ensured the forced transfer of more than 1500 convicts to the temporarily occupied left bank of Kherson region.

In addition, the former head of the Kherson colony, who ordered the forced transfer of 97 prisoners from the Snihurivka colony, was put on trial.

Last fall, the Center for Public Investigations released a movie "Who Kidnapped the Prisoners of the Snihurivska Correctional Colony in the Village of Tsentralne".

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