The Prosecutor General’s Office ordered the State Investigation Bureau to investigate the case of People’s Deputy Bezgin regarding the sale of an apartment in Crimea – media

The Main Investigative Department of the State Investigation Bureau opened a pre-trial investigation into the case of People’s Deputy Vitaly Bezgin from the Servant of the People Party in the case of the issuance of a power of attorney for the sale of his apartment in Crimea to one person. “Deputy” of the “Crimean Parliament” from “United Russia”. The Attorney General’s Office issued the relevant instruction to the SBI after entering the relevant information into the Unified Pretrial Investigation Record. Criminal case No. 42023000000001898 was recorded in the Unified Register by Prosecutor General Andrei Kostin. Ukrainian News writes that documents confirming the opening of the production were published by journalists of the Stop Corruption NGO in a story on their YouTube channel.

The media had previously written that Bezgin issued a power of attorney in Crimea in 2020 for the sale of his apartment in Yevpatoria to his aunt Galina Gerasimova, a Russian citizen and a member of the “Crimean Parliament” from United Russia. According to information from the state register of real estate rights, Bezgin owned an apartment with an area of ​​59.4 square meters in Yevpatoria after inheriting it from his grandparents. The apartment was sold according to Russian law, as evidenced by an extract from the Russian registry. Thus, Deputy Bezgin actually recognized Russian legislation in Crimea and committed a crime under the Criminal Code of Ukraine.

The media note that after the annexation of Crimea, Galina Gerasimova became the director of the hostel “Planet”, and later headed the “Tourist Information Center” and the so-called municipal autonomous institution of the Evpatoria city district. Crimea “Cultural and Ethnographic Center of Evpatoria “Little Jerusalem”. In 2018, Gerasimova twice crossed the administrative border of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea with the Kherson region of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea using a Ukrainian passport. She has already resold Bezgin’s apartment in Yevpatoria in accordance with Russian law. From 2020 He served as the “Deputy Chairman of the State Building and Local Self-Government Committee” in the occupation “parliament” of the peninsula.

The NGO Stop Corruption appealed to the State Bureau of Investigation and the Prosecutor General’s Office with a statement regarding Bezgin’s crime, that is, the signs of crime according to Article 2. 110 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine is a violation of territorial integrity, which includes the de facto recognition of Russian sovereignty in occupied Crimea. Since the law enforcement authorities left the application without evaluation, NGO representatives applied to the court, demanding that the relevant information be entered into the ERDR and to initiate an investigation.

According to the decision of the Pechersky District Court, the relevant information was entered into the ERDR and a pre-trial investigation was initiated. The transactions were recorded in the ERDR by the Prosecutor General of Ukraine Andrey Kostin.

The NGO Stop Corruption also published fragments of a letter from the Prosecutor General’s Office in which the relevant order was given to the Main Investigation Department of the State Bureau of Investigation to investigate Bezgin’s crime. Additionally, journalists published an excerpt from ERDR; Accordingly, we are specifically talking about the case filed against Bezgin. According to published data, in November 2023, a lawsuit was filed on the grounds of committing a crime under Part 2 of Art. 110 of the Criminal Code – violation of the territorial integrity and immunity of Ukraine by a representative of the authorities. The sanction of this article provides for a prison sentence of 5 to 10 years, whether or not there is confiscation of assets.