Former employee of penal colony from Kherson sentenced for high treason

Following a public prosecution by prosecutors of the Kherson Regional Prosecutor's Office, the court found a former penal colony employee guilty of high treason committed under martial law.

According to the Kherson regional prosecutor's office, the man was sentenced to 15 years in prison with confiscation of property and deprivation of his special rank of major of the internal service.

"Prosecutors proved that the convict, while in the temporarily occupied territory of Kherson region, voluntarily agreed to work for the enemy in an illegally created law enforcement agency that was part of the Federal Penitentiary Service of the Russian Federation and acted under the laws of the aggressor country," the agency said.

In addition, according to the investigation, the accused took the position of the so-called "senior operational officer of the Department of the Penitentiary Service in Kherson region". In his pseudo-position, the man executed criminal orders and instructions of representatives of the aggressor state, for which he received a salary in rubles.

Earlier, the court 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.

Also in the dock was the former head of the Kherson colony, who ordered the forcible transfer of 97 prisoners from the Snihurivka colony.

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

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