“On Wednesday, February 26, the Verkhovna Rada approved a number of laws. Among them is Law No. 11517, which amends the Criminal and Procedural Codes regarding the punishment of citizens suspected of collaborative activity. Co -author of the law, a deputy from the “servant of the people” Maria Mezentsev in a comment to UA.news in detail about what the essence of the new document and how he improves already improves”, – WRITE ON: ua.news
On Wednesday, February 26, the Verkhovna Rada approved a number of laws. Among them is Law No. 11517, which amends the Criminal and Procedural Codes regarding the punishment of citizens suspected of collaborative activity.
The co -author of the law, a deputy from the “servant of the people” Maria Mezentseva in a comment to UA.news in detail about the essence of the new document and how he improves the existing legislative rules.
“If it is very simple: the initiative began with the fact that there are many cases in the investigation under Article 111 (State betrayal – ed.). This is a large number of registered cases of potential collaboration. I say “potential” because without a judgment we cannot call a person.
Working directly in Kharkiv region, we encountered this problem during the next business trip to the city of Kupyansk. After the release of the city, the National Police and the SBU immediately began to carry out legitimate filtration – to establish the facts of potential collaboration. When these crimes were recorded, they were entered in the ERDR. And there were a lot of them. And on the limitation period in the previous wording of the law, they just went nowhere. At the same time there was a lot of work, which also went nowhere, ”Mesentseva explains.
The deputy tells about the interesting nuances of the new law. In particular, the word “crime” in it is replaced by the phrase “criminal offense”.
“These are really important technical and legal edits. Unfortunately, the cases of potential collaboration is really quite a lot … The law was immediately adopted, this is a rare case. But there was nothing to rule. All the profile committees were agreed with the text … That is, the philosophy of the law is very simple: we help the affairs and work on them not to get lost so that this work is not leveled … Summarizing: this law technically improves the procedure for consideration of cases concerning national security and collaboration. That these cases, as well as work on them, are simply not lost because of the limitation period, ”Maria Mezentseva summarized.
Earlier in Kharkiv region, two citizens who received positions in the Russian occupation administration were sentenced to collaboration.
