The Security Service and the National Police detained another collaborator in Kharkiv who worked with Russia at the beginning of the full-scale war.
This is a former employee of a telecommunications company from Kupyansk who supported the aggressor after the city was captured. For this, in the spring of 2022, the occupiers appointed him technical director of a local telecoms provider.
Then the defendant immediately ordered to cut off subscribers from broadcasting Ukrainian TV channels and Internet services. Instead of broadcasters of our country, the collaborator connected most of the city and neighbouring villages to the TV broadcasts of RosTv.
In this way, the racists used the technological capabilities of the local provider to massively spread Kremlin propaganda among the community.
After the release of the district centre, the collaborator moved to Kharkiv, where he tried to avoid justice by constantly changing the addresses of rented apartments.
SBU officers tracked down the offender and detained him at his place of temporary residence in the regional centre.
In addition, his accomplice was identified. He was another resident of Kupyansk, who had taken a job as a financial director of a local TV provider during the occupation.
On the eve of the liberation of the community, he fled with Russian troops to the temporarily occupied part of the territory in eastern Ukraine.
Based on the evidence collected by the SBU officers, the detainee was served a notice of suspicion under Part 2 Art. 28, Part 6 Art. 111-1 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine (collaboration). The offender is in custody. He faces 12 years in prison.
The criminal actions of his accomplice, who is hiding in the temporarily occupied part of the territory of our country, are qualified under the same article.