The SBU reported the suspicion to the former head of the Security Service, who headed the punitive bodies of the Russian Federation in the occupied part of the Kherson region. This is stated in the press service of the department..

We are talking about the former head of the SBU Alexander Yakymenko, who since 2014 was hiding in the Russian Federation for high treason, and after a full-scale invasion, supported the invaders and was appointed head of the “state security service in the Kherson region” created by Russia.

The Security Service said that in this position he performs the tasks of Moscow to spread the Kremlin regime and suppress the resistance movement in the region..

During the occupation of Kherson, Yakimenko instructed to seize one of the offices in the city center and set up a torture chamber in the basement..

They “knocked out” a confession from the people in assisting the Defense Forces of Ukraine, and then offered to receive an “amnesty” for money - they made money on mass repressions, and also made “indicators” in front of Russian “curators”.

According to the investigation, the former head of the SBU personally recruited eight more traitors who were directly involved in torturing civilians into the ranks of the occupation body..

“After the liberation of Kherson, Yakymenko, together with his henchmen, fled to the left bank of the Dnieper and is hiding from justice,” the SBU said in a statement..

Investigators collected enough evidence to inform the former general and eight of his accomplices of suspicion under several articles of the Criminal Code of Ukraine:.

2 st.

110 (encroachment on the territorial integrity and inviolability of Ukraine);

2 st. 111 (high treason committed under martial law);

st. 260 (creation of paramilitary or armed formations not provided for by law);

2 st. 28h. 1 st. 438 (violation of the laws and customs of war).

In 2015, the SBU issued Yakimenko a suspicion of committing a number of serious crimes, including financing terrorism and supplying militants with weapons.. Since 2014, he has been put on the wanted list..