The EU imposed sanctions against judges and prosecutors from Crimea
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The European Union imposed sanctions against Crimean judges and prosecutors in connection with the case of Ukrainian citizen Vladislav Esipenko, who was sentenced to six years in prison. Document published in the Official Journal of the EU.
The EU introduced restrictions against the deputy prosecutor of the Simferopol region of Crimea, Elena Podolnaya, who requested a sentence of 11 years in prison for the journalist, and the judge who announced the sentence, Dlyaver Berberov. Also subject to sanctions were employees of the Federal Security Service (FSB) Denis Korovin and Vitaly Vlasov, judge of the Supreme Court of Crimea Viktor Krapko.
The document clarifies that Vlasov and Krapko are also involved in the case of the deputy chairman of the extremist organization “Mejlis of the Crimean Tatar People” banned in Russia, Nariman Dzhelyalov, who was sentenced to 17 years in prison in the case of blowing up a gas pipeline. In connection with this case, prosecutor Anastasia Supryaga was also subject to sanctions.
In February 2022, Simferopol District Court of Crimea sentenced Esipenko to six years in a general regime colony. According to investigators, he photographed and filmed objects and crowded places in Crimea in order to later transfer them to Ukrainian intelligence. Esipenko was a freelancer for the publication Crimea.Realii (a project of Radio Liberty, both resources are included in the list of foreign agent media in the Russian Federation and are funded by the US government).
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