Court arrests Kuzmin in absentia for treason
A court has remanded former MP Renat Kuzmin, who represents the now-banned party OPZJ, to custody in absentia. The former MP is suspected of high treason.
This was reported by the State Bureau of Investigation (SBI).
The pre-trial investigation revealed that the MP had been posting propaganda against Ukraine in the media. He did this on the eve and after Russia started a full-scale invasion.
In particular, starting from March 2021 and even after Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine, Renat Kuzmin voiced propagandistic information in his speeches, messages in social networks and on his own website. Their purpose was to form an anti-Ukrainian mood in society and informational influence to damage the sovereignty, territorial integrity, inviolability and security of the state, the DBR reported.
The suspect's actions were qualified under Part 1 of Article 111 of the Ukrainian Criminal Code (high treason), for which the punishment is imprisonment for up to 15 years with confiscation of property.
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Eugenia Ruban writes about political and economic news. She looks at large-scale phenomena in Ukrainian politics and economics from the perspective of how they will affect ordinary Ukrainians.