Reporting a Suspicion published on the official website of the Office of the Prosecutor General of Ukraine, reports Center for Investigative Journalism.
The document states that Yuriy Grankin not only voluntarily went to work as the head of an illegal authority in the Gornostaevsk territorial community, but also forced local residents to cooperate with the Russian FSB.
The investigation succeeded in documenting the recruitment by Grankin of a 19-year-old resident of Gornostaevka, who, in exchange for an unimpeded exit from the occupied Kherson region, was supposed to provide representatives of the FSB of the Russian Federation with information about the location and stay of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, including in the Transcarpathian region, as well as the names and names of the commanders of Ukrainian military formations . After arriving in Transcarpathia, the young man turned to the SBU and reported his forced cooperation with the Russian occupation authorities.
For this crime, Yuri Grankin faces life imprisonment, with confiscation of property – under Part 2 of Art. 111 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine. At the beginning of 2023, the SBU reported the first suspicion exgauleiter of Gornostaevka.
On the appointment of Yuri Grankin as Gauleiter of Gornostaevka first reported by the CJR. Who he was – the locals did not know. As it turned out, Grankin is a native of Artemovsk, Perevalsky district, Lugansk region, and recently lived in the village of Dnepryany, Novokakhovskaya community.
In November 2022, Yuriy Grankin fled from Gornostaevka. Instead, the Russian occupiers appointed an electrician as Gauleiter of the village, ex-military with a criminal record Petr Melnichenko.
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