Ten pseudo-tax collectors from Kherson region to be tried

Prosecutors of the Kherson Regional Prosecutor's Office have sent to court indictments against nine residents of the region on the fact of voluntarily taking positions in an illegal law enforcement agency, and another person is charged with high treason.

The investigation found that in June 2022, the defendants took up senior positions of various levels in the illegally created Kherson Oblast Tax Service and its structural units in Kakhovka and Beryslav districts. Some of them had previously worked in the fiscal and justice authorities of Ukraine.

Photo: Kherson Region Prosecutor's Office

In these positions, within the limits of their authority, the suspects managed the work of the departments and assisted the occupation authorities in spreading the authority of the aggressor country. Each of them, performing their functions, was engaged in economic activities, calculated salaries and other allocations, recruited staff, registered taxpayers in accordance with the requirements of Russian law, etc.

Earlier, the Prosecutor's Offices of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea and Sevastopol served a notice of suspicion to the pseudo-Deputy Minister of Economic Development of the Republic of Crimea. He is accused of treason and collaboration. The investigation found that before the occupation of the peninsula, 41-year-old Serhiy Korolyov worked as the chief state auditor-inspector of the department of control and verification of income and fees of individuals of the Main Department of the Ministry of Income in the AR of Crimea. In 2014, he defected to the enemy and began building a career in the occupation department of the Federal Tax Service in the Republic of Crimea. In addition, in January 2024, the "tax officer" agreed to the enemy's proposal and took the position of pseudo-deputy occupation minister of economic development of the Republic of Crimea, where he has been working to this day.

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