Gauleiter of Skadovsk in Kherson region is suspected of collaboration

The Security Service of Ukraine has served 58-year-old Oleksandr Dudka with a notice of suspicion of collaboration in absentia for his work as a gauleiter in the resort town of Skadovsk in Kherson region.

This was reported by the Center for Investigative Journalism with reference to the text of the suspicion.

According to the Center for Journalistic Investigations, SBU investigators found that in September 2023, Dudka took part in the illegal elections of deputies to the occupation"council of deputies of the Skadovsk municipal district" of the first convocation. He was later appointed as a so-called deputy from Putin's United Russia. In October 2023, Dudka was appointed head of the occupation administration of Skadovsk for a five-year term.

For the crimes committed, the head of the administration was notified in absentia of suspicion of collaboration. He faces five to ten years in prison with confiscation of property.

The CJR drew attention to the fact that this is the second suspicion against Alexander Dudka. In October 2023, he was accused of working as the head of the occupation administration of the resort village of Lazurne, Skadovsk district.

According to the Center, before his defection to the enemy, Dudka headed the Lazurne utility company of the Lazurne community in Skadovsk district and was second in command after the mayor of Lazurne. Dudka is from Poltava Oblast, where he served in the criminal investigation department for a long time. He became famous, among other things, for publicly threatening to deprive insulin and other vital medicines to all residents of Lazurne who for some reason did not receive a Russian passport.

Earlier, the Security Service of Ukraine served a notice of suspicion of collaboration in absentia to Serhiy Manuilenko, head of the occupation administration of Shyroke village in Kherson region. He faces up to ten years in prison with confiscation of property.

Also, the pre-trial investigation of criminal proceedings against two pseudo-deputies - the notorious Kakhovka gauleiter Pavlo Filipchuk and Andriy Kharytonov - who were elected as so-called "deputies" from the aggressor state'sUnited Russia political party, was completed, and the indictments were sent to court.

Prior to that, the Velyko Oleksandrivskyi District Court of Kherson Oblast sentenced Yulia Prykhodko, the secretary of the occupying head of the Novoraysk village council of the Beryslav district of Kherson Oblast. Taking into account her repentance and the fact that her work for the enemy was not related to the performance of managerial functions, the court sentenced her to deprivation of the right to hold positions in government for 10 years without confiscation of property.