The Zheleznodorozhny District Court of Lvov sentenced 47-year-old Vladislav Kozeev to life imprisonment with confiscation of property, who photographed military installations and sent images to the Russians.
This is reported by the publication “Court Reporter”.
Kozeev did not admit his guilt and claimed that he did not do what is written in the charge. It is noted that in court he behaved quite boldly, during the sentencing he smiled confidently, and subsequently refused to take a copy of the decision and replied: “Send it to the Supreme Court.”
Prosecutor Taras Kovalchuk himself proposed to impose the most severe punishment. After all, the accused, in addition to the tasks he received, independently, for ideological reasons, searched for information and passed it on to the Russians, the newspaper notes.
Kozeev has Ukrainian citizenship, but was born in Russia in the city of Ulan-Ude. In 2008-2010, he was conditionally convicted of fraud – embezzling UAH 3.6 thousand from a friend.
He had two children, but in recent years he lived with his parents. It was in the parental house located nearby the railway track, from the windows of which he took some photos for the Russians, that Kozeev was detained on May 20, 2022.
It is noted that Kozeev has been engaged in illegal activities since May 2022. He sent representatives of Russia information about:
- location of military installations;
- movement of military personnel of the Armed Forces of Ukraine;
- coordinates of critical infrastructure facilities in the Lviv region, including five bridges;
- the consequences of rocket attacks on Lviv, recorded on his mobile phone.
He deleted the information after the transfer, but the investigators, using special software, managed to restore the corresponding pictures on the mobile phone found on him during the search. The defendant himself refused to confirm that the specified phone belongs to him.
Also on the phone was found a photo of a letter from the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation in 2021, which indicates that the man sought to obtain a passport of a Russian citizen. In the debate, the lawyer tried to convince the court that Kozeev was probably not a citizen of Ukraine and therefore he could not be tried for treason.
The lawyer spoke about the incorrect qualification of the prosecution. He does not see high treason in Kozeev’s actions, but at most unauthorized dissemination of information about the movement of the Armed Forces of Ukraine under martial law (Article 114-2 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine), the newspaper notes.
In general, the case was heard by the court for more than six months.
Source: “Court Reporter”
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