A former deputy of the Verkhovna Rada of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea, who in the spring of 2014 supported the Russian occupation of the peninsula, was sentenced to 14 years in prison for treason.

According to the information Center for Journalistic Investigations, we are talking about Luzhetska Svetlana Anatolievna, who currently holds the position of “business ombudsman” in the occupied Crimea.

Luzhetska Svetlana Anatolyevna from April 2010 until the beginning of the Russian occupation of Crimea was the head of the Black Sea District State Administration in the ARC. From March 2013 to September 2014 — deputy of the State Council of the Republic of Crimea of the sixth convocation. In June 2014, the occupiers appointed her as the head of the “Commission of the State Council of the Republic of Crimea on Entrepreneurship”. And in November 2014, the “head of Crimea” Sergey Aksenov appointed Luzhetska “Commissioner for the Protection of Entrepreneurs' Rights in the Republic of Crimea”. Since September 2015, Luzhetska has been under Ukrainian sanctions.

According to the press service of the Prosecutor's Office of the ARC and the city of Sevastopol, in March 2014 Luzhetska, together with other deputies, in order to legitimize the occupation of the peninsula by the armed forces of the Russian Federation, voted for the adoption of a number of illegal decrees. We are talking about the adoption of the resolution “On the declaration of independence of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea and the city. Sevastopol”, which provided for “the entry of the peninsula into the Russian Federation.”

“Contrary to the resolution of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine, which suspended the powers of the deputies of the Crimean parliament, “lawmakers” voted for the adoption of resolutions “On the Independence of Crimea” and “On the Succession of the Republic of Crimea”. In addition, in April 2014, the convict took part in an extraordinary meeting of the occupying State Council of the Republic of Crimea and cast her vote for the approval of the “Constitution of the Republic of Crimea”, — the prosecutor's office reported.