Ukraine identifies thousands of ‘traitors to the homeland’
Ukraine has established the full identities of more than 9,000 law enforcement staff members who are working in Crimea and are suspected of high treason, the Investigative Department of the Procuratorate of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea reported.
First Deputy Prosecutor Nikolay Ivanets announced on July 26 that the process of identifying traitors had been completed. He clarified that the total employee count of the 18 law enforcement agencies operating in Crimea before the Russian occupation was roughly 18,600.
“The investigative office of the ARC Procuratorate is carrying out the pre-trial investigation of 123 criminal high treason cases. During the pre-trial investigation, it determined the employee count of 18 law enforcement agencies which operated in the ARC and in Sevastopol before the occupation of the peninsula, roughly 18,600 people,” Ivanets observed.
He emphasized that thanks to the activity of the investigative department, the prosecutor’s office has established the full identities of just over 9,000 people.
“Evidence is being gathered primarily by the procuratorate’s investigators. Today we have the relevant registers which contain the necessary information on more than 4,000 law enforcement staff members,” the first deputy prosecutor said.
Ivanets stressed the necessity of improving collaboration with the Security Service of Ukraine when identifying persons who transitioned to working for the illegally created agencies of the occupation authority, thereby committing high treason. According to him, the matter also concerns Ukraine’s State Border Guard Service.