The price of betrayal: 14 years in prison and deprivation of the special title of "senior adviser of justice"

The Shevchenkivskyi District Court of Kyiv has sentenced the former head of the Sevastopol Prosecutor's Office, who, after the occupation of Crimea, joined the service of Russia and headed the occupation "Sevastopol Prosecutor's Office".

According to the Holos Kryma, Igor Shevchenko had been working in the prosecutor's office of Ukraine since 2001. From 2006 to March 2014, he held the position of Head of the Department for the Protection of the Rights and Freedoms of Citizens and the Interests of the State in the Sevastopol Prosecutor's Office.

With the beginning of the occupation of Crimea, the convict joined the service of the Russians and on May 2, by the decree of the President of the Russian Federation, he was appointed "Prosecutor of Sevastopol". He held this position for four years, and in October 2018 he was appointed Prosecutor of the Republic of Adygea. As the "prosecutor of Sevastopol", Shevchenko assisted representatives of Russian special services, law enforcement and other state authorities of the Russian Federation in conducting subversive activities against Ukraine, as well as in the illegal establishment and functioning of the system of state authorities of the Russian Federation in Sevastopol.

The judge found Shevchenko guilty of high treason and sentenced him to 14 years in prison with deprivation of the special title of "Senior Counselor of Justice".

Earlier, the Dniprovsky District Court of Kyiv sentenced the former senior prosecutor of the Krasnoperekopsk Interdistrict Prosecutor's Office of Crimea to 12 years in prison under the article on treason. In spring 2014, 40-year-old Maksym Perepylitsa, who had been working in the structure of the ARC Prosecutor's Office since 2006, "broke his oath and joined the service of the Russian occupiers - as a senior assistant to the Krasnoperekopsk Interdistrict Prosecutor of the illegally created 'Prosecutor's Office of the Republic of Crimea'." In the fall of 2023, Maksym Perepylytsia was appointed acting "prosecutor of the Pervomaisky district" in the Russian prosecutor's office of Crimea.

Former Crimean judge Irina Erokhina was also sentenced to 12 years in prison. She ruled against Ukrainian citizens for political reasons, including convicting Crimean Tatars and pro-Ukrainian activists. She was sentenced by the Sviatoshynskyi District Court of Kyiv. In addition, the court convicted Natalia Lysytska, a servicewoman of the 57th separate motorized infantry brigade of the operational command "South", in absentia, of aiding the aggressor state. The woman was dismissed from military service, and in June 2022, she was already distributing material aid from the occupiers in the amount of 10 thousand Russian rubles to residents of the Novokakhovka community.

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