In Odesa, a customs officer suspected of high treason was fired because of her Russian passport

Former Odesa customs officer Tetyana Pakulyak, who was fired after she was once again found to have obtained a Russian passport, is trying to get her job reinstated through the courts.

Recently, the first instance refused to satisfy her claim, but the former law enforcement officer appealed the decision, Dumskaya reported.

Tetyana Pakulyak was the deputy head of department No. 2 of the Odesa-Vnutry customs post. She was fired in February this year. Before that, the woman was prosecuted for treason. She allegedly passed information about mobilization activities at the customs, personal data of employees and information about the movement of humanitarian aid to the enemy.

Although the case was closed due to the absence of corpus delicti, during the investigation, the SBU established the following fact: on May 1, 2014, the customs officer, who was then working in the Crimean tax office, received a passport of a citizen of the Russian Federation in the temporarily occupied Sevastopol.

Tetyana Pakulyak herself claims that this is not true, and as evidence she presented to the court a certificate from the occupation department of the federal migration service of Russia for 2016, according to which she did not apply for a Russian passport. The SBU, in turn, insists that the woman received such a document and it is still valid.

Last year, the Fifth Administrative Court of Appeal upheld the ruling of the Odesa District Administrative Court to reinstate Denys Pudryk as the head of the State Service of Ukraine for Food Safety and Consumer Protection.

The Odesa District Administrative Court upheld Denys Pudryk's claim in September 2022. The court declared illegal and canceled the order of the agency on the resignation of Denys Pudryk and recovered from the service the average salary for the period of forced absenteeism in the amount of UAH 193 thousand 982.