Crimean collaborator sentenced to 8 years in prison for cooperation with Russia

The “head of the State Committee for Youth Policy of the Republic of Crimea” was found guilty of collaboration and sentenced to 8 years in prison, UNN reports, citing the prosecutor's office of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea and Sevastopol.

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Following a public prosecution by the autonomy's prosecutor's office, the “head of the State Committee for Youth Policy of the Republic of Crimea” was found guilty of committing collaboration (part 5 of Article 111-1 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine). He was sentenced in absentia to 8 years in prison with deprivation of the right to hold positions related to civil service and local self-government for 10 years and confiscation of property. 

Prosecutors proved in court that in July 2022, the convict voluntarily headed the “State Committee for Youth Policy of the Republic of Crimea”. Implementing the policy of the aggressor state in the occupied territories, the “official” organizes and conducts numerous events to shape the pro-Russian information space and influence the minds of Crimean youth

According to the information, from 2020 to the present, the convict has been the head of the Crimean branch of the Young Guard of United Russia, an institution included in Canada's sanctions list against organizations involved in the deportation of Ukrainian children to Russia, as well as in the creation and dissemination of propaganda and disinformation.

Recall

 In the temporarily occupied Kakhovka, Kherson region , collaborators compiled a list of 16 houses with specific addresses, offering the owners to appear with a Russian passport and a document of ownership within 30 days, otherwise the houses would be transferred to the occupation authorities in the process of so-called “nationalization”.