Flag of Ukraine. Archival photoMOSCOW, July 20The Kyiv prosecutor's office reported suspicions of «encroachment on the territorial integrity of Ukraine» and «seizure of state power» to the first deputy prosecutor general of the LPR, the deputy minister of justice of the DPR and the director of the civil service for the execution of punishments of the Ministry of Justice of the DPR, it says in a statement from the office of the Prosecutor General of Ukraine. The agency does not name the suspects. According to open sources, the post of First Deputy Prosecutor General of the LPR is held by Yuri Linnik, Deputy Minister of Justice of the DPR — Pavel Belyaev, Director of the State Service for the Execution of Punishments of the Ministry of Justice of the DPR — Yuri Doroshenko. «, as well as to the «director of the state service for the execution of sentences of the Ministry of Justice of the DPR» on the fact of committing actions aimed at forcibly changing or seizing state power and infringing on the territorial integrity and inviolability of Ukraine,» the press service of the Prosecutor General's Office reports in its Telegram channel .According to the Ukrainian investigation, all the suspects are former law enforcement officers of Ukraine. The suspects face imprisonment for a term of five to ten years with or without confiscation of property. Earlier, the State Bureau of Investigation (SBI) of Ukraine reported that since February 24, it opened 504 criminal cases for high treason and 139 for collaborationist activities — 139.
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