Lieutenant of the Internal Service in Kherson region got a job in a colony under the Russian Federation

The Prosecutor's Office of Kherson region has served a notice of suspicion to a former lieutenant of the internal service, an ex-executive, of high treason and voluntary holding a position in an illegal law enforcement agency (Part 2 of Article 111, Part 7 of Article 111-1 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine).

This was reported by the Kherson Regional Prosecutor's Office.

The investigation established that the 36-year-old suspect, who was an active employee of the Penitentiary Service of Ukraine at the time of the occupation of Kherson, voluntarily cooperated with the enemy at the end of May 2022.

He took up the position of the so-called 'head of the detachment of the department for educational work with convicts' in the institution of the Northern Correctional Colony (No. 90), which operated within the structure of the illegally created by the occupiers 'Department of the Penitentiary Service in the Kherson region'. Having sided with the enemy, the former officer contributed to the establishment and functioning of the entire law enforcement branch of the occupation authorities in the Kherson region, using his experience in the penitentiary system.

The pre-trial investigation into high treason and holding a position in an illegal law enforcement agency was conducted by the Territorial Department of the State Bureau of Investigation in Melitopol.

Also, following public prosecution by prosecutors of the Kherson Regional and Oleshky District Prosecutor's Offices, the former director of a lyceum was found guilty of collaboration and aiding the aggressor state (Part 3 of Art. 111-1, Part 1 of Art. 111-2 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine).

The court sentenced the former director to 12 years of imprisonment with confiscation of property. Additionally, she was deprived of the right to hold positions related to state power, local self-government and organizational and administrative functions for a period of 15 years.

Prosecutors proved that during the temporary occupation of the village of Bilozerka (Kherson region), the convicted person cooperated by taking the pseudo-director's position of the seized lyceum in July 2022, which she renamed Bilozerka School No. 1 named after Pechersky.

In this pseudo-position, she was actively involved in the implementation of educational standards of the Russian Federation, placed symbols of the aggressor country, organized the recruitment of employees and sent teachers for "retraining" to Crimea, thus contributing to the implementation of the occupation policy.

Катерина Глушко