Police have exposed nine collaborators - they face up to 15 and 5 years in prison
Employees of the Department of Internal Security of the National Police of Ukraine continue their work aimed at exposing supporters of the “Russian measure”. Thus, it was possible to establish eight more defectors who remained in the temporarily occupied territory of the so-called “Luhansk and Donetsk People's Republics” and agreed to work for the occupiers.
Seven residents of Luhansk region after Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine went to work for the “Ministry of Internal Affairs” of the illegally created “Luhansk People's Republic”. For loyalty to the enemy, one of them, a 55-year-old man, even received the position of “substitute chief of the Ugibdd Mvd LPR”.
Another 42-year-old resident of the temporarily occupied Donetsk region held the position of “timely exercising attachment of the Uk ovsgr” of the so-called “Mvd dnr”.
In addition to carrying out criminal orders from the enemy, the defectors publicly call for support of the aggressor country and give interviews to pro-Kremlin TV channels, promoting the Russian regime.
According to the materials of the Department of Internal Security of the National Police, exposed persons are criminalized in absentia under Part 7 of Article 111-1 (Collaborative Activities) of the Criminal Code of Ukraine. For loyalty to the occupiers, they are threatened with imprisonment for up to 15 years.
The activities to expose collaborators are carried out under the procedural guidance of the Kyiv City Prosecutor's Office and the Office of the Prosecutor General, and the pre-trial investigation is carried out by the investigators of the State Bureau of Investigation and the GUSBU in the city of Kyiv and Kyiv region.
Also, the police reported a suspicion of a resident of the Balakliya community. From April to October last year, a 62-year-old woman noted and distributed publications on her personal page containing information in support, justification and approval of the armed aggression of the Russian Federation against Ukraine, started in 2014.
According to this fact, law enforcement officers opened criminal proceedings under Part 2 of Art. 436-2 (justification, recognition of lawful, denial of armed aggression of the Russian Federation against Ukraine, glorification of its participants) of the Criminal Code of Ukraine.
On the basis of the collected evidence, investigators of the police department No. 1 of the Izyum RUP GUNP in Kharkiv region under the procedural leadership of the Izyum District Prosecutor's Office under the operational support of the SBU informed the defendants about the suspicion of committing a crime.
For committing a crime, a woman faces up to 5 years in prison with or without confiscation of property.
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