Called Russia to aggression: the case against the ex-MP who supported the occupation was sent to court

Law enforcers have sent to court an indictment against a former MP who called on Russia to attack Ukraine and supported Russia's occupation of Ukrainian territories. The former MP also spread Russian fakes about the joy of the inhabitants of the temporarily occupied territories over the arrival of invaders and persuaded people to get Russian passports.

If the court finds the ex-nardeputy guilty, he faces five years in prison, Kyiv police said. According to OBOZREVATEL sources, we are talking about the former "regionalist" who fled to the Russian Federation Kharkiv resident Dmitry Svyatash.

Kyiv police investigators have sent the indictment against the former MP to court. He will be tried for a crime under part 1 of Article 110 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine - encroachment on the territorial integrity and inviolability of Ukraine. The sanction of the article provides for up to five years in prison.

"The defendant published on his page in the social network a post with public calls for military aggression of the Russian Federation against Ukraine and supported the authorities of the Russian Federation in the occupation of the territories of our state. He also used propaganda fake information that the Ukrainian population in the captured territories of Ukraine has a positive attitude to the occupiers and persuaded residents of the so-called "liberated territories" to show their civic position and get Russian passports", - stated in the message.

The police did not give the name of the MP, and his photo was published with a blurred face. However, OBOZREVATEL's sources claim that it is a former "regionalist" MP of five convocations of the Verkhovna Rada, Dmitry Svyatash from Kharkiv.

Back in 2004, Sviatash was a confidant of presidential candidate Viktor Yanukovych. From 2005 to 2014, he was a member of the Party of Regions, and after the Revolution of Dignity he joined the political force Renaissance.

Svyatash's name has repeatedly sounded in high-profile scandals, including those with a criminal trail.

So, on October 8, 2019 he was announced on suspicion in part 4 of article 190 of the Criminal Code (fraud by prior conspiracy by a group of persons, in especially large amounts), and on part 3 of article 27 part. 3 Art. 358 of the Criminal Code (forgery of an official document). Svyatash is charged with conspiring with the management of the AIS group of companies to fraudulently seize money received from UkrSibbank as loans. According to the prosecutor's office, he caused damage to the bank worth 1.1 billion hryvnias.

On 16 November, Svyatash was put on a wanted list as part of the criminal case.

He is currently hiding on the territory of the Russian Federation. MP of the 8th convocation, former journalist Mustafa Nayem said in the spring of 2022 that it was Svyatash that Russia considered as one of the main candidates for the post of gauleiter of Kharkiv, a city that last April the Russian Federation still hoped to seize.

We will remind, earlier it became known that the SSU reported about the suspicion of the ex-leader of the Communists Simonenko: during the occupation of Kyiv region he escaped to the Russian Federation accompanied by Russian special forces.

The Kremlin sent a detachment of special forces to the village of Berezovka in Makarov Region after receiving a personal appeal from Symonenko about his "evacuation". The latter personally met the Russian special forces when they arrived in the Ukrainian settlement. He "quartered" them in his own house and provided them with food.

Then, from March 4 to 8, 2022, the occupation special unit carried out an "escort" of Simonenko and his relatives to the territory of Belarus.

From there he moved to Russia, where he was appointed deputy chairman of the "Central Committee of the international communist association "Union of Communist Parties - Communist Party of the Soviet Union".

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