The SBU suspected the OPZZ deputy of cooperation with the invaders.

According to the special service, the deputy handed over the food and chemical industry factories in Zaporizhzhia to the occupiers.

As reported in the press service of the Security Service of Ukraine, the perpetrator was the former head of the Pologiv District Council of the Zaporizhia Region, who was a member of the banned OPZZH party.

After capturing part of the region, he was one of the first to support the invaders.

For this, he was appointed head of the local occupation administration and allowed to form the "staff" of a pseudo-organ, say the special service.

"While in the "post", he carried out the instructions of the Kremlin regarding the reorganization of the work of Ukrainian enterprises in favor of the aggressor country. First of all, the enemy was interested in large facilities of the chemical and food industry. It was their capacities that Moscow planned to use to meet the needs of the military-industrial complex and military groups Russian Federation," the message says.

To do this, the collaborator made an "inventory" of local businesses and obliged entrepreneurs to "re-register" in the "military-civil administration" created by the occupiers.

He also forced the management of Ukrainian companies to pay "taxes" to the budget of the Russian Federation and to supply finished products to Russia.

In case of disagreement, the perpetrator threatened persecution by the punitive authorities of the Rashist and physical violence

To coordinate the work of the collaborator, a Russian curator - the deputy governor of the Penza region - was "fixed" behind him.

It was with him that the deputy negotiated the transfer of Ukrainian enterprises to the aggressor, as well as the organization and holding of a pseudo-referendum in the captured district.

"In addition, the collaborator took an active part in the propaganda projects of the Kremlin and was a "character" in the pseudo-documentary films of one of the ideologues of racism, Okhlobystin," the SBU notes.

On the basis of the collected evidence, the investigators of the Security Service informed the deputy about the suspicion under Part 5 of Art.

111-1 (collaborative activity) of the Criminal Code of Ukraine.

Currently, the suspect is trying to hide from justice in the temporarily occupied territory of Ukraine.

"However, the SBU has established his whereabouts and is taking measures to bring him to justice," the special service summarized.

Detention of collaborators in Ukraine

In Ukraine, 

collaborators

 and supporters of the "Russian peace" continue to be identified and detained.

In total, since the start of the full-scale invasion, the 

SBU has detained more than 700 collaborators in Ukraine.

About half a thousand families of collaborators 

fled to the annexed Crimea

 from the Kherson and Zaporizhzhia regions.

Read also:

  • Flags of the Russian Federation, methods and weapons: traitors who were preparing to meet the occupiers were exposed in three cities

  • Two Odessans glorified Putin and campaigned for "Russian peace" in shops

  • The SBU detained a trucking company that provided buses to transport the occupiers from Crimea to Kherson