The SBI reported suspicion to the head of Interdistrict Registration-Examination Department in occupied Melitopol

The State Bureau of Investigation served a notice of suspicion to a former law enforcement officer who fled from Melitopol to Crimea back in 2014 and returned there after the occupation of the city by the occupiers.

The former head of the Melitopol city traffic police, and later the former head of the traffic police in Donetsk and Dnipropetrovsk regions, resigned from the Ministry of Internal Affairs in 2014 and moved to the occupied Crimea. In 2022, after the full-scale russian aggression and the temporary occupation of part of Zaporizhzhia region, he returned to Melitopol and was appointed by the occupiers as the "head of the Interdistrict Registration-Examination Department of the traffic police in Zaporizhzhia region".

With the assistance of the Department of Internal Security of the National Police of Ukraine, the former law enforcement officer was served a notice of suspicion of voluntarily holding a position in illegal judicial or law enforcement bodies established in the temporarily occupied territory by a citizen of Ukraine (Part 7 Art. 111-1 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine).

The sanction of the article provides for punishment in the form of imprisonment for up to 15 years.

Procedural guidance is provided by the Prosecutor General's Office.