The Prosecutor General’s Office reported suspicion of treason to a People’s Deputy of Ukraine of the 9th convocation. This was reported by the Prosecutor General’s Office and the State Bureau of Investigation (SBI). This is probably Oleksandr Dubinsky, who has previously been charged with high treason.
According to the investigation, the suspect, through publications, posts, audio and video messages on his own Telegram channel, Facebook and Instagram, spread pro-Russian narratives and “helped the aggressor state in carrying out subversive activities against Ukraine.”
The State Bureau of Investigation noted that the suspect is already in a pre-trial detention center, but even there he “continued active anti-state information propaganda.” During meetings with lawyers, he used their laptops: he prepared texts, recorded videos, saved materials, and left instructions on what, where, and how to publish.
After that, the lawyers passed these materials on to his wife, who now lives in Barcelona and administers the deputy’s social media. Prosecutors, together with law enforcement officers, analyzed more than 50 video messages and publications of the politician posted on his Telegram channel, social networks and other information resources, including Russian ones.
“Their content was mainly aimed at undermining trust in state institutions, discrediting Ukraine’s external and internal political course and creating the prerequisites for disrupting mobilization processes,” — the UCP statement reads.
The prosecutor’s office did not name the suspect. At the same time, People’s Deputy Oleksandr Dubinsky stated that he had indeed been charged with another suspicion. He reported that searches were being conducted at his pre-trial detention center and at his lawyers’ offices.
Law enforcement officers informed him of a new suspicion under Part 2 of Article 28, Part 2 of Article 111 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine. The sanction of the article provides for from 15 years of imprisonment to life imprisonment.
Dubinsky had already been informed of suspicion in two cases. The first concerns the organization of a scheme for military conscripts to travel abroad. According to the investigation, he illegally smuggled his civil wife’s brother to Moldova. To do this, according to investigators, the deputy used the controlled public organization “Mediaoborona”, through which he introduced the “necessary people” to the “Shlyakh” system, supposedly as volunteers.
The deputy was also suspected of high treason. According to the investigation, Dubinsky had the call sign “Buratino” and was a member of a criminal organization created by the Main Directorate of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the USSR, known as the GRU. His role, according to the investigation, was to spread fakes about the top military-political leadership of Ukraine.
