The Prosecutor’s Office of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea has
secured the conviction of a citizen of Ukraine who helped the
occupation authorities persecute Crimeans, sentenced to 12 years in
prison with confiscation of property on charges of treason (Part 1 of
Article 111 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine). This was reported by
representatives of the “Prosecutor’s Office of the Autonomous Republic
of Crimea” in Telegram.
The convict is a former law enforcement officer who held senior
positions in the Crimean Ministry of Internal Affairs until 2011, and
later continued to work for Chornomornaftogaz as the head of the motor
transport department. After the occupation of the peninsula, he
provided the occupying law enforcement agencies with vehicles to
conduct illegal searches and detentions of Ukrainian citizens in
Crimea.
The investigation proved that from March 2019 to August 2020, he
regularly cooperated with the Russian Federal Security Service in the
Republic of Crimea, in particular, he provided transport for
simultaneous searches and convoys of detainees accused of allegedly
participating in Hizb ut-Tahrir. In March 2019, he participated in 15
searches of Crimean Tatars’ homes in Simferopol.
On November 7, 2020, he was detained at the Kalanchak checkpoint while
trying to leave the non-TOT Crimea. The arrested person was kept in
custody until the sentence was passed.