“Nine former employees of the Crimean prosecutor’s office will be tried for treason. They face up to 15 years in prison.”, — write: www.ukrinform.ua
“The Prosecutor’s Office of the Autonomous Region sent indictments against nine former employees of the Prosecutor’s Office of Crimea to the court. Their actions are classified as high treason (Part 1 of Article 111 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine). The sanction of the article provides for up to 15 years of imprisonment,” the message says.
The investigation established that after the occupation of the peninsula, the defendants betrayed their oath of loyalty to the Ukrainian people and joined the service of the enemy.
In particular, two of them assumed the positions of “senior prosecutors of departments” in the occupation prosecutor’s office of the Republic of Crimea. Three more became “deputy prosecutors” of the cities of Alushta, Yevpatoria, and the Saksky interdistrict prosecutor. The other defendants were appointed “senior assistant prosecutors” in the prosecutor’s offices of the city of Yalta, the Krasnoperekop interdistrict, the Kyiv district of the city of Simferopol, and the Black Sea district of the Republic of Crimea.
By their actions, the defendants ensured the creation and functioning of the occupying prosecutor’s office on the peninsula, as well as assisted the aggressor state and its representatives in carrying out subversive activities against Ukraine.
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Earlier, Ukrinform reported that the Prosecutor’s Office of Crimea registered more than 3,200 criminal cases during the years of Russian occupation.