The former investigator voluntarily cooperated with the occupiers.

Source: Kharkiv Regional Prosecutor’s Office

The court found a 33-year-old former investigator of the Izium District Police Department guilty of voluntarily taking a position in an illegal law enforcement agency established in the temporarily occupied territory. The collaborator will spend 12 years behind bars.

“Prosecutors proved that during the occupation of Balakliia, the 33-year-old former investigator voluntarily took up the position of ‘security police officer’ in the so-called ‘People’s Militia’,” the statement said.

The occupiers did not entrust the collaborator with much: he mainly guarded administrative buildings, warehouses and the local ‘tax collector’ when he gathered tax revenue at the market. In early October 2022, law enforcement exposed and detained that man.

Following a public prosecution by the prosecutors of the Kharkiv Regional Prosecutor’s Office, the court found an ex-investigator of one of the departments of the Izium District Police Department of the Main Department of the National Police in the region guilty of voluntarily holding a position in an illegal law enforcement agency established in the temporarily occupied territory (part 7 of Article 111-1 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine). He was sentenced to 12 years imprisonment with deprivation of the right to hold any position in law enforcement for 12 years and confiscation of property.

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  • She sided with the adversary: SSU detained a postal worker in Izium. During the city’s occupation, the 43-year-old Ukrposhta (Ukrainian Postal Service) employee headed the local branch of the Russian post office at the personal suggestion of the pro-Kremlin “governor of the Izium district”.
  • Assisted in smuggling Ukrainian grain to Russia: man to be tried in Kharkiv. The Kupiansk bakery plant chief engineer cooperated with the Russian invaders during the city’s occupation.