The Court of Appeal of Kiev allowed the Ukrainian Prosecutor General's Office to conduct an in-depth investigation into the ex-prosecutor of the annexed Crimea by Natalia Poklonskaya, this is reported on the court's website.

"This decision of the court of first instance granted the request of the senior investigator for the department of internal affairs of the investigation department of the department for the representation of the interests of a citizen or the state in court, counteracting criminality and corruption on the Crimean peninsula of the Prosecutor General's Office of Ukraine and granted a special pre-trial investigation in criminal proceedings in Poklonskaya Street. ", The statement says..

It is noted that she is suspected of h. 1 st. 255 (Creation of a criminal organization), h. 4 items. 28 h. 1 st. 109 (Actions aimed at the forcible change or overthrow of the constitutional system or the seizure of state power), h. 4 items. 28 h. 3 items. 110 (Encroachment on the territorial integrity and inviolability of Ukraine), h. 1 st. 111 (High treason) of the Criminal Code of Ukraine.

Before the annexation of Russia by the Crimea Natalia Poklonskaya worked in the bodies of the Prosecutor's Office of Ukraine. In the spring of 2014, after the occupation of the Ukrainian Crimea, Moscow established there by the Russian government appointed her "prosecutor" of the peninsula. It initiated a ban on the activities of the Mejlis in Russia, and also in fact in the occupied Ukrainian Crimea, in 2016.

Now Poklonskaya in Russia is considered a deputy of the State Duma. She was illegally "elected" to the Russian parliament in the Ukrainian Crimea at the pseudo-elections that Moscow arranged in the occupied peninsula. Ukraine and the West did not recognize this "election".

In Ukraine, in relation to Natalia Poklonskaya, two criminal cases were instituted: on high treason and on the prohibition of activities of the Mejlis of the Crimean Tatar people. It is also on the EU's sanctions lists and a number of countries, in particular Australia, Switzerland, Liechtenstein and Norway.