The Kherson City Court found local resident Iryna Kovbasa guilty of collaborationism; she worked at the occupation’s forensic-criminalistic center.
The verdict was published on the website of the Unified State Register of Court Decisions.
As the investigation established, at the end of May 2022 Kovbasa voluntarily took the position of senior court expert in handwriting analysis at the so-called expert-criminalistic center created by the occupying authorities.
She conducted examinations, checked handwriting and signatures, after which she prepared official conclusions based on their results. On the eve of the de-occupation of the right bank of Kherson region, she left for the left bank together with the Russians. She remains in this position to this day.
Also, according to the SBU, Kovbasa was involved in repressions and the fabrication of “evidence” against Ukrainians in the temporarily occupied territories.
The court in absentia found Iryna Kovbasa guilty under Part 7 of Article 111-1 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine. She was sentenced to 15 years of imprisonment with confiscation of all property.
According to media, before the full-scale invasion Iryna Kovbasa worked in the Kherson police.
Earlier MOST wrote that the court found a resident of Velyka Oleksandrivka Marina Humeniuk guilty of collaborationist activity; she headed the local occupation administration.