Investigators of the SBU Directorate in the Kherson region have announced suspicion against a judge from Crimea, Viktor Dmytriiev, who became a judge in the temporarily occupied left-bank area of the region.
This is stated on the website of the Office of the Prosecutor General of Ukraine.
As the investigation established, until 2015 Dmytriiev was a judge of the Sevastopol Appellate Commercial Court, and after the annexation of Crimea he remained on the peninsula, began cooperating with the occupying authorities, continuing to work as a judge but already under Russian law.
In February 2024, Russian President Vladimir Putin appointed Viktor Dmytriiev as a judge of the occupying Kherson Regional Court, which was created in temporarily occupied Henichesk.
“While being in the premises of the aforementioned illegal judicial body, he began to perform his direct duties, where he grossly and systematically violates the requirements of Ukrainian and
international humanitarian law, issuing judicial decisions on behalf of the Russian Federation”, – the text of the suspicion states.
Viktor Dmytriiev is suspected under Part 7 of Article 111-1 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine – voluntarily assuming a position in illegal judicial bodies created on temporarily occupied territory by a citizen of Ukraine. The investigation is ongoing.
Earlier MOST wrote that the former assistant to a judge of the Bilozerka District Court became a pseudo-judge on the left bank of Kherson region.