Sviatoshynsky District Court of Kyiv has sentenced (in absentia) to 12 years in prison with the confiscation of all property a judge of the Sevastopol Court of Appeal of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea (ARC) under the article “high treason.”
It was established that a citizen of Ukraine, while being a judge of the Sevastopol Court of Appeal of the ARC, in March-December 2014, “deliberately ensured the establishment and strengthening of the occupation power of the Russian Federation in the territory of Crimea through direct participation in the formation and functioning of illegally created Russian occupation bodies in the temporarily occupied territory of Crimea.”
“She also facilitated the performance in the occupied territory of the functions of a representative of the occupying power of the aggressor state,” the Main Military Prosecutor’s Office reported on Facebook on Oct. 15.
On Dec. 19, 2014, by decree of the Russian president, she was appointed judge of the Twenty-First Arbitration Appeal Court of the Republic of Crimea. According to the Kyiv court, this judge assisted Russia in carrying out subversive activities against Ukraine to the detriment of the sovereignty and territorial integrity of Ukraine.
In addition, as part of the Sevastopol Economic Court of Appeal illegally created on the territory of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea, she made so-called court decisions recognizing the property of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine, located on the peninsula, as the property of the military administration of the Russian Federation.
“According to the principled position of the prosecutors in maintaining the public prosecution in court, the panel of judges of the Sviatoshynsky district court of Kyiv, in a special judicial proceeding, on Oct. 8, 2019 found the judge of the Sevastopol Court of Appeal of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea guilty of committing a crime under Article 111, Part 1 (high treason) of the Criminal Code of Ukraine, who has been sentenced to 12 years of imprisonment with confiscation of all property belonging to her,” the Chief Military Prosecutor’s Office said.
