A policeman from the Luhansk People's Republic put on the wanted list in Ukraine was convicted in a case of torture, fraud and bribery.

The Russian occupation Zhovtnevyi District Court of Lugansk sentenced 45-year-old Levan Tsikhiseli in the case of torture, fraud and bribery on an especially large scale. Mediazona learned about this from the case file in the Court of Cassation.

It is not reported when exactly the verdict was handed down. The details of the charges are also unknown.

Tsikhiseli from the city of Antratsyt, Luhansk region, occupied since 2014. He is wanted in Ukraine under the article on creating a terrorist group (Part 1 of Article 258-3 of the Criminal Code). According to the SBU, in 2016, Tsikhiselli “transferred heavy equipment to the militants (from the LPR - Ministry of Health) for the construction of fortifications.”

According to leaks from Ukrainian databases in 2014, Tsikhiselli worked in the Anthracite department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. In November 2021, a post appeared in the Anthracite public page about the awarding of Tsikhiseli with the medal “For Services to the Anthracite Region”, III degree. At the same time, the author of the post was dissatisfied with this and called Tsikhiselli and his colleagues “devils in uniform” who daily “nightmare” local residents.

Tsikkhiseli’s wife, artist Olga Tsikkhiseli, did not respond to the message from the Mediazona correspondent. Judging by her social networks, Levan Tsikkhiseli was detained after January 2025 - in that month she mentioned that after a creative day she was going to hug her husband and children.