The SSU and the National Police have collected evidence on members of a criminal organization that operated as the ‘main directorate of the russian ministry of internal affairs in Kherson region’ created by the aggressor.

In the ranks of russia’s punitive authority, they fulfilled the kremlin’s orders to spread occupation regime and suppress the resistance movement in the temporarily occupied areas.

The offenders had a clear hierarchical vertical, headed by two supervisors from the FSB and the russian interior ministry - russian citizens Sergey Viktorovich Sinitsyn and Alexander Sergeevich Toptygin, who formed the leadership of the directorate and oversaw its activities.

They involved two russian police officers, appointing them ‘deputy heads’ of the fake agency. The head was the former chief of the Ministry of Internal Affairs Directorate in Cherkasy region, Volodymyr Lipandin.

The other 30 active members of the criminal organization are former local law enforcement officers who supported the invaders.

According to the investigation, the ‘officials’ of the occupation ‘ministry’ abducted people and took them to russian jails, where the victims were subjected to various types of torture.

In this way, ruscists tried to intimidate population and force them to work for the occupation administration.

They regularly carried out illegal searches of local households and looted property, including registered hunting weapons.

In one episode, russian ‘law enforcers’ robbed a pharmacy, taking all the cash and medicines and ‘seizing’ the premises for the invaders.

The staff of the punitive authority was also involved in the sham referendum: they guarded ‘election committees’ and ensured the transportation of fake ‘ballots’.

Based on the collected evidence, the SSU notified all the identified ‘officials’ of suspicion under Article 255 of the CCU (creation, leadership of a criminal community or criminal organization, participation in it).

The suspects are currently hiding in the temporarily occupied territory.

The SSU has already detained four other ‘officials’ of this russian occupation authority.

The SSU is acting to bring to justice the rest of this criminal group.

The investigation was carried out jointly with the Internal Security Department of the National Police under the supervision of the Prosecutor General’s Office.

The full list of identified members of the organized criminal group – employees of Kherson ‘main directorate of russia’s ministry of interior’ includes:

•    1.    Lipandin V.V. - head of the main directorate;
•    2.    Bobryshev V.M. - chief of human resources unit;
•    3.    Savina N.V. - deputy chief of HR unit;
•    4.    Stusenko Ye.H. - chief of investigation unit;
•    5.    Trubayev M.V. - chief of criminal investigation unit;
•    6.    Frolov Ye.L. - chief of unit for combating organized crime;
•    7.    Malynovskyi R.O. - chief of unit for solving crimes against persons;
•    8.    Chmelyov V.O. - chief of unit for solving property crimes;
•    9.    Velykoselskyi Ye.V. - chief of unit for combating drug trafficking;
•    10.  Tsymbarevych O.M. - deputy chief of public safety police;
•    11.  Harkusha H.O. - chief of Berkut battalion;
•    12.  Horelov K.V. - chief of public relations centre;
•    13.  Morozyk U.S. - chief of HR unit of the criminal investigation unit;
•    14.  Yaremenko O.O. - chief of training centre;
•    15.  Parfeniuk Ye.P. - deputy chief of staff – chief of duty unit;
•    16.  Fomina T.I. - chief of financial support unit;
•    17.  Chumanov A.V. - operative of criminal investigation unit;
•    18.  Kraynov P.A. - investigator of investigation unit of Suvorovskyi city police department;
•    19.  Ruban V.O. - operative of criminal investigation unit of Dniprovskyi city police department;
•    20.  Kondratov K.A. - investigator of investigation unit of Dniprovskyi city police department;
•    21.  Zhakomin A.A. - operative of internal security operational and search unit;
•    22.  Chernyshov V.V. - staff inspector of Suvorovskyi city police department;
•    23.  Kovtun P.G. - deputy head of the main directorate – chief of the criminal police;
•    24.  Selezniov V.V. - investigator of Suvorovskyi city police department;
•    25.  Kanivets I.P. - chief of human resources unit;
•    26.  Dmytruk O.A. - deputy chief of investigation unit;
•    27.  Zaporozhets A.P. - chief of economic security and anti-corruption;
•    28.  Lysenko D.V. - chief of staff;
•    29.  Kamianskyi R.M. - chief of ‘Hrom’ special purpose unit;
•    30.  Starosvitskyi S.M. - deputy head of the main directorate;
•    31.  Toptygin O.S. - employee of russia’s ministry of internal affairs;
•    32.  Sinitsyn S.V. - FSB ‘supervisor’ of occupation authorities in Kherson region, FSB officer;
•    33.  Kuzmenkov H.H. - deputy head of the main directorate, employee of russia’s ministry of internal affairs;
•    34.  Topolnitskyi O.S. - deputy head of the main directorate – chief of public safety police, employee of russia’s ministry of internal affairs.