Encroachment on the territorial integrity and inviolability of Ukraine, collaboration and aiding the aggressor state: Supreme Court upholds sentence for crimes against national security

The Criminal Cassation Court of the Supreme Court upheld the decisions of the courts, according to which a citizen of Ukraine was found guilty of direct participation, organisation and holding a ‘referendum’ on the accession of the temporarily occupied territories of the so-called DNR to the Russian Federation as the secretary of the district referendum commission, as well as the fact that being the manager of the affairs of an illegally established village administration, she took actions to implement the decisions of the occupation administration of the aggressor state, in particular, participated in the implementation of the decree of the head of the DNR terrorist organisation by developing measures to be implemented in the temporarily occupied territory of the village administration (part 1 Art. 110, part 5 Art. 111-1, part 1 Art. 111-2 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine ). The person was sentenced to 12 years' imprisonment with the deprivation of the right to hold positions related to the performance of organisational, administrative and economic functions in state and local government bodies and to engage in activities related to the electoral and referendum process for a period of 15 years, with confiscation of all property.

Resolution of the Criminal Cassation Court of the Supreme Court of 12 June 2024 in case No. 569/1908/23 (proceedings No. 51- 1430км24) - https://reyestr.court.gov.ua/Review/119741340.

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