The State Bureau of Investigation submitted to the court a statement of claim against Dmytro Tabachnyk, former adviser to the former Minister of Education and Science of Ukraine. He is accused of treason, calls for war and extensive materials justifying the aggression of the Russian Federation.
This was reported by the press service of the SBI.
The investigation established that the former adviser to the ex-minister Dmytro Tabachnyk received funding from representatives of the Russian government while working in Ukraine for subversive activities, actively voicing anti-Ukrainian narratives through media platforms.
He received instructions over the phone or simply in Moscow, where he went from time to time, the SBI claims.
After the accused fled to Russia in February 2014, fearing exposure, he continued his criminal activities, justifying Russia's aggression and spreading propaganda to over half a million viewers and readers through popular Russian media.
"In order to reach the largest audience, the accused published his interviews and publications on popular Internet sites, including interviews on the channels of well-known propagandists of the Russian Federation, the number of views of such materials amounted to more than half a million people," the SBI said.
The former official is charged with treason (Article 111 of the Criminal Code), calls for aggressive war (Article 436 of the Criminal Code) and the production and distribution of materials justifying the aggression of the Russian Federation (Article 436-2 of the Criminal Code). For these crimes, he faces life imprisonment. Procedural management in the case is carried out by the Prosecutor General's Office.
We will remind, in 2024, the State Bureau of Investigation exposed 120 officials, including employees of the TCC, MSEK, doctors and law enforcement officers, who organized the illegal crossing of the state border for conscripts.
