Russian henchman, who headed one of the occupation institutions in Kherson region, may be imprisoned for 12 years

During the occupation of Bilozershchyna, a 52-year-old resident of Oleksandrivka voluntarily agreed to cooperate with representatives of the aggressor country. He has now been served in absentia with a notice of suspicion of collaboration and aiding the occupiers.

According to the head of the territorial police unit of Kherson region Serhii Baluta, the operatives found that in September 2022, the man was appointed with his consent as "the head of the department of housing, transport, construction and road activities of the military-civilian administration of the Beloziorsk settlement territorial community of the Kherson district".

The defendant's pseudo-position involved the performance of organizational, administrative and economic functions. Also, according to the "order" of the local occupation authorities, at the beginning of the new school year, he took part in the so-called commission of the "Department of Education and Science of the Kherson region" in the inspection of the Mykilkivka secondary school regarding the readiness of the school to work according to Russian educational standards.

Investigators qualified the defendant's anti-Ukrainian actions as collaboration and aiding the aggressor state. Currently, in coordination with the Oleshky District Prosecutor's Office, the offender was served a notice of suspicion in absentia. For committing crimes against the national security of Ukraine, the suspect faces imprisonment for a term of 10 to 12 years with full confiscation of personal property.

Earlier, the Security Service collected a large-scale evidence base on four high-ranking Russian clerics who spread the Kremlin regime in the temporarily occupied part of Ukraine.

Also, a 38-year-old man who worked as the "first deputy" of the "detention center" illegally created by the occupiers during the occupation of Kherson was suspected of violating the laws and customs of war, committed in prior conspiracy with other unidentified persons. In October 2022, the man ensured the forced transfer of more than 1500 convicts to the temporarily occupied left bank of Kherson region.

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