A businessman close to Akhmetov received a suspended sentence for treason
The former deputy head of the Ukrainian administration of Sevastopol, Oleg Kizimenko, received a five-year suspended sentence by the Goloseevsky District Court of Kyiv.
This was reported by Moskovsky Komsomolets, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
Kizimenko was detained last year in the Donetsk region and accused of high treason and collaboration with the Russian authorities. He briefly remained as deputy chairman of the administration in 2014, but was demoted to deputy department director in March when Sevastopol's executive branch was reorganized under Russian law.
According to rumors, in 2015 the city department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Sevastopol became interested in the activities of Kizimenko, in which signs of fraud were seen. After this, the former Russian official moved to Ukraine, where he successfully ran a business. His family company Hozkhimservice received large contracts for the construction of solid waste landfills.
Kizimenko admitted in court that in 2014 he helped create Russian authorities on the peninsula, although when arrested he even denied the fact of his work in the government of Sevastopol. Repentance was taken into account. The court found him guilty and sentenced him to five years in prison, but immediately released Kizimenko from serving his sentence with a probationary period of one year, during which he will not be able to leave the territory of Ukraine without the consent of the authorized authorities.
Kizimenko is considered close to the oligarch Rinat Akhmetov.
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