Ukrainian journalist convicted of espionage in DPR
In Donetsk, Ukrainian journalist Stanislav Vladimirovich Aseev, who had previously come to the attention of the DPR Ministry of State Security, was convicted on charges of espionage and extremist activity.
About it сообщается on the official website of the DPR Prosecutor General's Office, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
“Investigators found that in the period from March 2015 to May 11, 2017, Aseev S.V., being a member of the extremist community, for financial compensation, through e-mail channels, sent to community members materials prepared by him, negatively covering the activities of the authorities , law enforcement agencies and military formations of the DPR.”
Also, according to the investigation, “S.V. Aseev, fulfilling a foreign intelligence assignment, through visual observation, collected information about the locations of the DPR People’s Militia, transmitted it via the Internet to representatives of the SBU, realizing that the information he collected would be used against the security of the DPR.”
In addition, the convict, “acting deliberately, under the guise of carrying out journalistic activities, looked for pro-Ukrainian users on social networks and, through persuasion and persuasion, persuaded them to collect and transmit information of a military and other nature that could be used against the security of the republic,” they said. in the department.
In August, the Appeals Chamber of the Supreme Court of the DPR found Stanislav Aseev guilty of committing a number of crimes under Articles 329, part 3 – “Organization of an extremist community”, 321 – “Espionage”, 32 part 4 and 321 – “Incitement to espionage”, 321 hours 1 – “Public calls for extremist activities” and 326 part 2 “Public calls for actions aimed at violating territorial integrity.” In accordance with the proven guilt, the defendant was sentenced to imprisonment in a maximum security colony for a period of 15 years with deprivation of the right to engage in journalistic activities for a period of 2 years and 6 months and with restriction of freedom for a period of 1 year.
Let us recall that before his arrest in June 2017, Stanislav Aseev, under the pseudonym Stanislav Vasin, worked as a freelance correspondent for Radio Liberty in Donetsk.
After receiving higher education in Donetsk, he left for France to join the ranks of the French Foreign Legion. Then he returned to Ukraine, where he did not have a permanent place of work, changing a total of 15 professions, including a loader, a bank trainee, an operator at a postal company, a sales consultant for household appliances, and a grave digger.
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