Repairing the occupiers' transport: Kherson entrepreneur suspected of working for the enemy

The Security Service of Ukraine has served a notice of suspicion of collaboration to Yevhen Maslakivskyi, a businessman from Henichesk, Kherson region, who was repairing enemy vehicles.

This became known from the text of the suspicion.

According to the investigation, the man, while living in the occupied Genichesk, Kherson region, illegally registered as an individual entrepreneur in the Unified Register of Legal Entities of the Russian Federation. In May 2023, he signed a contract with the main department of the occupation Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation in the amount of 1 million 209 thousand 600 rubles. The services consisted of vehicle maintenance. And in June and August of the same year, Maslakivsky signed a contract with Kherson Avtodor for 111 thousand 450 rubles and 331 thousand 850 rubles. He also signed three contracts with the occupation prosecutor's office for 156 thousand 500 rubles.

Now the entrepreneur is charged with conducting business activities in cooperation with the aggressor state, illegal authorities established in the occupied territory, including the occupation administration of the aggressor state. The man faces a fine of up to 10 thousand tax-free minimum incomes or imprisonment for 3 to 5 years, with deprivation of the right to occupy certain positions or engage in certain activities for a term of 10 to 15 years with confiscation of property.

Earlier, the SBU established that 37-year-old Igor Yasinsky, a former head of a pyrotechnic group in Crimea, defected to the enemy in 2014 and headed a similar department in the occupation structure on the peninsula. For this act, the SBU notified him in absentia of suspicion of treason. He faces 15 years in prison.

Also, a citizen of Ukraine, head of one of the departments of the Main Directorate of the State Emergency Service of Ukraine in the Autonomous Republic of Crimea, betrayed his oath and went over to the enemy. He took the position of "Deputy Minister of Emergency Situations of the Republic of Crimea".

In addition, two Ukrainian citizens voluntarily took up senior positions in the occupation law enforcement agencies after the occupation of Crimea. They are charged with collaboration. The sanction of the article provides for up to 15 years in prison.

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