The Sosnivskyi District Court of Cherkasy found former Kherson police officer Oleksandr Deryabin guilty of collaboration in absentia.
This was stated in the court’s verdict.
As the court found, during the temporary occupation of Kherson Deryabin voluntarily agreed to cooperate with the Russian occupation administration and took a position in the illegally created Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Kherson Oblast. According to the case, he was assigned the special rank of “police major” by the occupying authority.
The guilt of the former police officer was confirmed by eyewitness testimony, investigation materials, data from open sources and documents of law enforcement agencies. The court found that his actions aided the aggressor state and undermined Ukraine’s sovereignty and territorial integrity.
The court found Oleksandr Deryabin guilty of collaboration (Part 7 of Article 111-1 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine), and sentenced him to 14 years of imprisonment with confiscation of property.
In addition, the court barred him for 10 years from holding positions related to organizational and managerial or administrative and economic functions in state authorities, local self-government bodies and in institutions that provide public services.
Deryabin served in units of the Main Directorate of the National Police of Kherson Oblast from 2015 until June 2022. From February 2021 he held the position of senior duty inspector of Police Department No. 1 of the Kherson District Administration. In June 2022 he was dismissed from the National Police due to a disciplinary sanction.
Earlier we wrote that the Desnianskyi District Court of Chernihiv handed down a sentence to a native of Mykolaiv Oblast Oleg Ostakhovsky, who during the occupation of Kherson worked in a colony seized by the Russians.