Prosecutor's Office of Crimea (Ukraine) sends case of the Ukrainian ex-prosecutor to the court

The Prosecutor's Office of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea sent an indictment to the court against the ex-prosecutor involved in Ilmi Umerov’s criminal prosecution, vice-chairman of the Mejlis of the Crimean Tatar people in the occupied Crimea.

The Prosecutor's Office of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea press service reported it.

«Within the investigation there appeared the irrefutable evidence confirming that the ex-prosecutor of the Prosecutor's Office of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea, who switched to deserted to illegally created «Prosecutor's Office of the Republic of Crimea», assisted the occupation authorities in conducting subversive activities against Ukraine, including falsifying the materials in the criminal case against Ilmi Umerov», they said in the prosecutor's office.

The ex-prosecutor will be issued an indictment with the state treason. He will face an imprisonment from 12 to 15 years.

«I again highlight the inevitability of punishment to all people involved in a persecution of the Ukrainian citizens in Crimea. In particular, there are those citizens who have stayed in Crimea and continue fighting for Ukraine’s independence», the prosecutor of the ARC Gunduz Mamedov said.

To remind some facts, Ilmi Umerov’s criminal prosecution in Crimea has been proceeding since May, 2016. The deputy chairman of Mejlis of Crimean Tatars was accused of extremism for his alleged appeals to violate Russia's territorial integrity. Ilmi Umerov said to ATR TV channel that he wouldn’t recognize the referendum and subsequently «reunification» Crimea with Russia in 2014, as well as he wpuld “support the UN General Assembly resolution where Crimea was considered as a temporarily occupied territory and the Russian Federation recognized as an aggressor country in relation to Ukraine».

One of Umerov’s lawyers, Nikolay Polozov, was also oppressed in Crimea. They dismissed him from his criminal proceeding and allowed to question him as a witness in his client’s case.

In September 2016, Umerov was forcibly detained for 3 weeks in a psychiatric hospital in Simferopol for a forensic psychiatric examination despite his poor health, in particular, having a heart attack and diabetes.

The first court hearing on Ilmi Umerov’s case passed on June 7, 2017, in the Simferopol District Court.

The persecution of a famous participant in the Crimean Tatars’ national liberation movement, deputy chairman of Mejlis, Ilmi Umerov, had caused a huge public and international resonance.