Security Service of Ukraine detains 16 collaborators in Kharkiv Oblast and finds Russian occupiers’ "cash box" containing over US$352,000

VALENTYNA ROMANENKO – THURSDAY, 15 SEPTEMBER 2022, 13:14

Following the liberation of Kharkiv Oblast, the Security Service of Ukraine has detained 16 collaborators and found lists of all the "officials" appointed to serve in the Russian occupation administrations.

Source: Artem Dekhtiarenko, spokesman for the Security Service of Ukraine (SSU), on Telegram

Quote: "The Security Service continues to undertake large-scale stabilisation operations in parts of eastern Ukraine that are close to the front. Within a few days of the liberation of Kharkiv Oblast, 16 local collaborators had been found and detained.

Thirteen of them have already been given notice of suspicion of committing crimes, and 11 have been detained as a preventative measure."

Details: The Security Service noted that its officers have conducted detailed checks on some 7,000 people in the liberated settlements of Kharkiv Oblast.

The SSU also reported that in the course of its operations in the liberated territories, its officers have obtained lists containing the personal data of representatives of the former occupying administration and people who collaborated with them.

In addition, they uncovered the occupiers’ "tax service" registers, which listed all the commercial outlets that had funded the armed aggression against Ukraine by paying "taxes" which contributed to the budget of the Russian Federation.

In the course of their investigation, the SSU officers discovered a "cash box" which contained more than 21 million roubles [approximately US$352,200] in Russian banknotes, plus documentary evidence of criminal activities undertaken for Russia’s benefit. The cash box had been abandoned by the Russian occupiers at the address where some of them had lived.

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