Occupation official from Crimea gets jail term

An occupation official from Crimea has been sentenced in absentia to 7 years in prison for collaboration.

This was reported by the press service of the Prosecutor's Office of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea and Sevastopol.

The post says that the "deputy head of the Dzhankoy district administration" was found guilty of collaboration (Part 5 of Article 111-1 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine) under the public prosecution of the autonomy's prosecutor's office. She was sentenced in absentia to 7 years in prison, with a 12-year disqualification to hold positions related to the performance of organizational and administrative functions, and confiscation of property.

Prosecutors proved in court that the Ukrainian citizen voluntarily agreed to cooperate with the occupiers, taking up the position of "deputy head of the administration of the Dzhankoy district" in June 2023. In her position, the convict is directly involved in the implementation of the policy of the aggressor state and contributes to the functioning of the system of occupation local governments on the peninsula.

The special pre-trial investigation was carried out by investigators of the Main Department of the National Police in the Autonomous Republic of Crimea and Sevastopol.

Earlier it was reported that five occupation judges from Crimea were suspected of administering "justice" on behalf of and in the interests of the aggressor state. The investigation established that in 2022-2024, citizens of Ukraine voluntarily took up the positions of "judges" in the judiciary on the occupied Crimean peninsula. In particular, in the "Supreme Court of the Republic of Crimea", "Zheleznodorozhny District Court of Simferopol", "Bakhchisaray District Court of the Republic of Crimea". In May 2024, one of the suspects was appointed to the position of a "magistrate judge" in the "judicial district of the Central Judicial District of Simferopol, Republic of Crimea".

It was also reported that the largest "Kremlin mouthpiece" on the occupied peninsula was sentenced to twelve years in prison with confiscation of property.