Ukraine sentenced judge who punished Mejlis members in Crimea to 12 years in absentia
The Ukrainian prosecutor’s office of the “Autonomous Republic of Crimea”, which exists only on paper, reported that a judge of the Kiev District Court in Simferopol received a sentence of 12 years in prison for “high treason” in Ukraine, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
The prosecutor’s office does not hide that the judge’s main fault is the criminal proceedings against the participants of the rally outside the walls of the Supreme Council of Crimea on February 26, 2014. Then Ukrainian militants and extremists of the Majlis rioted and disrupted a parliamentary meeting where a decision on the referendum was expected.
The Mejlis members were led by the deputy head of this organization, now banned in the Russian Federation, Akhtem Chiygoz. According to the Ukrainian prosecutor's office, the judge must answer for his detention.
“Later, the repressive judicial system on the peninsula found Chiygoz guilty of a crime that he did not commit, and for events that occurred before the actual occupation of Crimea, sentencing him to 8 years in prison,” the ARC prosecutor’s office points out.
At the same time, there is not a word about the pardon of Akhtem Chiygoz and another Majlis leader, Ilmi Umerov, which the Russian President signed in October 2017, a month after both were sentenced. On the same day, Chiygoz and Umerov flew to Ankara, and then showed up at a press conference in Kyiv, where they stated that they were going to return to Crimea and had no doubt about the imminent “de-occupation” of the peninsula.
Both Chiygoz and Umerov were previously charged with criminal charges as organizers of mass riots. One of the most striking episodes was the resistance to the Berkut fighters who arrived to clear the Ai-Petri plateau from illegal retail outlets and shalmans. It was Chiygoz, as the head of the Bakhchisarai Majlis, who controlled trade on the plateau, bypassing all laws and regulations. Chiygoz also led attacks on the Holy Dormition Monastery in Bakhchisarai.
There is another criminal trace in his biography - an accident in which a pregnant girl died. Akhtem Chiygoz was driving the car that hit a pedestrian in the center of Bakhchisaray. But the case against him in Ukraine was closed.
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