A businesswoman from Crimea has been notified in absentia of suspicion of collaboration with the aggressor state and of aiding Russia.
This was reported by the press service of the Kherson Regional Prosecutor’s Office.
According to the investigation, a 39-year-old resident of Crimea registered a company in Russia in November 2022 and opened accounts in banks of the aggressor country. The company’s main activity was wholesale trade in fuel.
In April 2024 the woman concluded agreements with the occupation administration of Nova Kakhovka, the illegal authorities in Henichesk, and the head of the so-called Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation for the Kherson region for the supply of fuel and lubricants. The total amount of supplies exceeded 9 million rubles. She paid taxes from this activity to the Russian budget.
Investigators also established that in August 2023 the suspect applied to the illegal property fund of the Kherson region regarding the transfer under the management of her company of lands that the occupation authorities considered «ownerless». In addition, she asked the «governor» of the occupied part of the Kherson region to transfer to her the property of fuel stations in Chaplynka and Henichesk.
In return, the businesswoman undertook to supply fuel to the illegal authorities of the region and to supply it for the needs of the Russian army to conduct combat operations.
Recall, the Kherson resident who gave interviews to Russian propagandists was sentenced to 2 years’ imprisonment.