Indictments Filed Against Crimean Officials for High Treason and Collaboration

The indictments against two high-ranking officials of the occupation bodies of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in Crimea have been sent to court.

According to the Prosecutor's Office of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea, their actions are qualified as high treason (Part 1 of Article 111 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine) and collaboration (Part 7 of Article 111-1 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine), for which they face up to 15 years in prison.

According to the investigation, the defendants are citizens of Ukraine who previously worked as operatives in the criminal investigation department of the Saki city department and the Kerch city department of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine in the Autonomous Republic of Crimea. After the seizure of Crimea, they betrayed their oath and joined the occupation authorities.

In 2014, one of them was appointed "Head of the Criminal Investigation Department of the Intermunicipal Department of the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs in the Saki District" and later became "Deputy Chief of Police" in Yevpatoria. In 2022, he voluntarily became the head of the "department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation in Yevpatoriya," and a year later - the "department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation in Yalta."

The second defendant in the case in 2014 became the "head of the criminal investigation" in occupied Kerch, and in 2022 accepted the enemy's offer and headed the "department of the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs in the Leninsky district".

As explained by the prosecutor's office, their activities contribute to the functioning of the occupation law enforcement agencies and help the aggressor state to conduct subversive activities against Ukraine.

Meanwhile, a former Ukrainian citizen who voluntarily started working for the aggressor's authorities after the occupation of Crimea was sentenced in absentia.

Earlier, the autonomy's prosecutor's office sent to court an indictment against the general director of Tavrida Publishing and Printing House, who is suspected of aiding and abetting the organization and holding of illegal elections on the temporarily occupied territory of the peninsula.

Also, 11 "private entrepreneurs" of the annexed peninsula, who in 2022-2023 entered into "contracts" with the occupation penal colonies in Sevastopol and the so-called "Federal Penitentiary Service of the Russian Federation", were suspected.

Ірина Глухова