Three judges from Crimea sentenced for treason

Three traitorous judges from Crimea were sentenced to 12 years in prison.

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

The post says that under the public prosecution of the Prosecutor's Office of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea and the city of Sevastopol, three former judges from Crimea who went over to the enemy were sentenced in absentia. They were sentenced to 12 years' imprisonment for treason (Part 1 of Article 111 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine).

Prosecutors proved in court that after the occupation of the peninsula, the convicts betrayed their oath of allegiance to the people of Ukraine by taking up positions as "judges" in the occupying Leninsky and Simferopol district courts, as well as the Yevpatoria city court of the Republic of Crimea. Administering "justice" on behalf of and in the interests of the aggressor state, the "servants of Themis" ensured the functioning of the occupation judiciary on the peninsula and assisted representatives of a foreign state in conducting subversive activities against Ukraine.

The special pre-trial investigation was carried out by the territorial department of the State Bureau of Investigation located in Melitopol.

Earlier it was reported that the prosecutor's office of the autonomy sent indictments to the court against 10 former employees of the Crimean prosecutor's office. They are charged with high treason (Part 1 of Article 111 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine) and face up to 15 years in prison. The investigation has established that after the occupation of the peninsula, the defendants betrayed their oath of allegiance to the people of Ukraine and joined the enemy. In particular, two of them were appointed as "heads of departments" and two as "department prosecutors" in the occupation prosecutor's office of the Republic of Crimea.

It was also reported that five more occupation judges from Crimea were convicted in absentia of treason.