Former tax officer from Kherson sentenced to 15 years in prison

The Khadzhybeyskyi District Court of Odesa found guilty of high treason a 58-year-old resident of Kherson, Svitlana Salamatnikova, who worked in the illegally created tax service of the invaders during the Russian occupation of the city.

According to IRS-Pivden, the court found that in June 2022, Svitlana Salamatnikova voluntarily took the position of head of the department of the chief accountant of the occupation tax service of the Kherson region.

Prior to cooperating with the occupiers, she worked as a chief state auditor-inspector of the VAT refund audit department of the Tax Audit Department of the Main Department of the State Tax Service in Kherson region, the Autonomous Republic of Crimea and Sevastopol.

During the trial, two witnesses confirmed that they had seen Salamatnikova at work in the occupation institution. Documents seized by investigators during the investigation also served as evidence in the case.

At the end of October 2022, before the Russian troops fled Kherson, the leadership of the occupation tax service ordered employees to evacuate to the left bank of the Dnipro. However, some employees refused to leave the city.

The court found Svitlana Salamatnikova guilty in absentia under Part 2 of Article 111 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine - high treason. She was sentenced to 15 years in prison with confiscation of all property.

Recently, the court imposed a preventive measure of detention on a deputy of the Kherson Regional Council of the VIII convocation. He is suspected of conducting agricultural business in the interests of the aggressor state in the temporarily occupied territory of Kherson region.

In addition, in Kherson region, the court found a resident of the region guilty of collaboration, who headed an illegal"employment service" in Skadovsk during the occupation.

Earlier, Yuriy Skrytskyi, who was a lawyer for the mayor of Kherson , Ihor Kolikhayev, was sentenced in absentia to 11 years in prison for aiding the aggressor state .

Андрій Колісніченко