Ex-MP who fled to Crimea was served a notice of suspicion in the State Council

A former MP from the Party of Regions, elected in a majority constituency in Sevastopol, was suspected of treason, incitement to national hatred, combined with deception and glorification of the aggressor state.

According to the State Bureau of Investigation, before the events of the Revolution of Dignity, the former MP took an active part in the attempts of the then government to prevent Ukraine's integration into the EU and bring it closer to Russia instead. Among other things, he organized provocative actions to split Ukraine from Poland.

In 2014, he resigned from his seat as a member of parliament early and fled to the temporarily occupied territories of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea and the city of Sevastopol, where he began to serve the invaders. He got a job as an advisor to the occupation administration and then ran in vain for the so-called "governor of Sevastopol".

Having not received the desired positions and recognition, the traitor continued to conduct subversive activities against Ukraine. The deputy made anti-Ukrainian statements in the Crimean media, made anti-Ukrainian videos that were posted on the Internet for public viewing. In his speeches after the beginning of the full-scale invasion of Ukraine by Russian troops, the traitor publicly praised the war of aggression and the aggressor, humiliated the Ukrainian people and denied Ukrainian statehood.

The maximum penalty for committing these acts is life imprisonment.

The SBI also recalled that in early November 2024, the Shevchenkivskyi District Court of Kyiv sentenced this MP to 5 years in prison for inciting police officers to abuse power with the use of violence and inciting national hatred and enmity.

The agency's statement does not name the traitor, but according to media reports, it may be Vadym Kolesnichenko.

Earlier in Ukraine, a deputy of the Sevastopol City Council of the VI convocation, Artem Maltsev , was sentenced in absentia to 11 years in prison under the article on treason, who in March 2014, together with other deputies of the Sevastopol City Council, voted for the adoption of an illegal resolution "On the Declaration of Independence of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea and the city of Sevastopol", which contradicts the Constitution of Ukraine.

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