Chuiko Bogdan Mikhailovich

Chuiko Bogdan Mikhailovich

Born in Poland in 1919. In 1942 he joined the UPA and fought against the Germans until 1944. In 1944 he became a citizen of the USSR. In 1948 he was arrested by the NKVD for "treason" (participation in the UPA in 1942-1944) and sentenced to 10 years in the camps. In 1949 he was released from escort and worked in civilian positions (as a foreman, technician, senior technician in the quality control department), received a salary, paid taxes, and received letters of gratitude. On June 1, 1956, he was released on parole by the Irkutsk Regional Court. When he was hired, personnel department employees, based on certificates from the camp and the determination of the Irkutsk Regional Court, entered his work record for 1949-1956 into his work record book. In 1969, a case of embezzlement was opened against him. Despite positive references from his workplace, a letter from over 800 workers requesting Chuyko's release "on bail," and a statement in his defense by the regional party committee secretary, he was sentenced to seven years in a labor camp and transferred to Ivano-Frankivsk. There, "due to newly discovered circumstances," the case for his participation in the UPA was reopened. He was sentenced to 15 years in a labor camp and five years in exile, but received credit for the eight years he served between 1948 and 1956.
In 1976 he was transferred from the camp to exile in the Tomsk region. In 1977, as a disabled person, he was allowed to move to Michurinsk to be with his family. In March 1979, he applied to the Michurinsk city social security office for a pension, including the years 1949-1956 in his work record. On March 26, 1979, the Michurinsk city social security office excluded the years 1949-1956 from his record and established a new record of 11 years. On March 14, 1980, the Michurinsk city social security office refused to appoint a pension. He appealed the refusal to the Ministry of Social Security of the RSFSR, but again indicated that he had served a sentence from 1949 to 1956. On March 24, 1980, he was taken to the Michurinsk city prosecutor's office for questioning as a witness in the case of the head of the city social security office. After interrogation, he was asked to sign the interrogation report as an accused, but he refused. He was arrested. During the preliminary investigation, the pension file was falsified: Chuiko's statement, in which he stated that he served a sentence from 1949 to 1956, was removed; instead, documents were included regarding Chuiko's pension appointment and the cancellation of this pension in December 1980 – Chuiko had never seen any of these documents before and did not receive a pension. On June 12, 1980, the Michurinsk City People's Court found him guilty of fraud in the form of "abuse of trust of employees of the Michurinsk City Social Security Office for the purpose of illegally obtaining a disability pension," recognized him as an especially dangerous recidivist, and sentenced him under Part 3 of Article 93 of the Criminal Code of the RSFSR to 6 years in a special regime camp. On June 17, 1980, the Tambov Regional Court, after reviewing a cassation appeal, overturned the verdict and remanded the case for a new trial. The Tambov Regional Prosecutor appealed this ruling. Upon retrial by the Tambov Regional Court and then by the Supreme Court of the RSFSR, the verdict was upheld.