Recently, occupation “media” reported the arrest of Zaporizhzhia native Oleg Kozyura, a Crimean collaborator, by the aggressor’s punitive forces. It was stated that Kozyura, who was sent to the Simferopol “pre-trial detention center,” was “charged with extortion and armed robbery by a group of persons” against an unnamed “Feodosia businessman.”
At the time of his arrest, Kozyura was listed by the occupiers as the so-called “head of the Sevastopol regional branch” of the all-Russian public organization of military invalids “Voin.”
However, this collaborator had a different career, unrelated to the military, and it began in the Crimean police, where Kozyura came from the tax service and later became the head of the organized crime department in Feodosia.
We previously reported that a further “growth stimulus” for Kozyura was the construction of a house in Koktebel, with the active support of the local police chief, Sergei Volodin, for Anatolii Mohyliov, then the head of the Crimean police as a whole and later the head of the Council of Ministers of the AR of Crimea.
It was for his “services” in constructing this mansion on the grounds of the former “Blue Bay” health resort that Kozyura became the head of the Sevastopol police during the Yanukovych era, and he met the occupation as the head of the Sevastopol office of the State Migration Service of Ukraine in Sevastopol.
In 2014, Kozyura became an active participant in a special operation to prepare for a Russian military invasion of the peninsula. For this, the occupiers rewarded him in 2014 with the extremely lucrative position of “head of the Federal Migration Service for the city of Sevastopol,” where he oversaw the mass issuance of legally invalid “Russian passports,” including those issued on a purely commercial basis.
After the liquidation of this structure, the occupiers transferred this “valuable official” in 2016 to the criminal role of “chief of staff of the legislative assembly of Sevastopol,” where he successfully outlasted two city gauleiters.
However, in 2021, Mikhail Razvozhaev attempted to transfer Kozyur to the position of “commissioner for the protection of entrepreneurs’ rights,” which sparked a serious struggle between corrupt groups, and ultimately, this collaborator remained with the gauleiter as an “advisor.”
The current detention of Kozyura, a figure under Ukrainian and European sanctions, can be easily explained by the classic expression “I knew too much,” and now, it’s likely, his “confessions” will be saved for subsequent “personnel trials” on the occupied peninsula, which the Kremlin has most likely postponed until the fall, “after the Duma elections.”
