On Saturday, November 7, Nikolai Fedoryan, a Ukraine citizen suspected of high treason, was detained at the Kalanchak checkpoint. The citizen regularly assisted the occupation law enforcement officers during illegal searches in the case of Hizb ut-Tahrir. The press service of the ARC Prosecutor’s Office reports this.
"Now the Prosecutor's office of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea and the city of Sevastopol, together with the Main Directorate of the Security Service of Ukraine in the Autonomous Republic of Crimea (based in Kherson), informed the citizen of Ukraine about suspicion of high treason (Part 1 of Article 111 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine). The article provides for imprisonment for twelve to fifteen years," the message says.
Noted that since 2012 the suspect served as the head of the transport and aviation department of the State Joint Stock Company "Chernomorneftegaz." After the occupation of Crimea by the Russian Federation in 2014, he stayed to work for that company. Taking advantage of his official position, the man assisted the occupation law enforcement officers ( namely the "Service for the Protection of the Constitutional System of the FSS Directorate for the Republic of Crimea"). He helped organize a series of illegal searches in the households of the Crimean Tatar people, who were persecuted for alleged participation in the organization "Hizb ut-Tahrir."
"Thus, the citizen of Ukraine gets suspected of committing high treason by providing a foreign state with assistance in carrying out subversive activities against Ukraine, that is, under Part 1 of Article 111 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine," the department added.