Detained NABU officer part of Russian agent network – SBU

The State Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) says that it has has established that an employee of the Central Office of the NABU, who was detained in July and worked in the closed unit D-2, was part of a large-scale spy network of the enemy.

As reported in the Telegram channel of the special service on Monday, in addition to the NABU employee, the spy network included three more people, whose exposure took place earlier. "All agents were well versed in conspiracy measures, had access to state secrets and restricted documents," the report says.

According to the case materials, the criminal activities of the agents were supervised by an employee of the 1st service of the counterintelligence operations department of the Federal Security Service (FSB) of the Russian Federation, Igor Yegorov. "He began to form his spy network in 2009, when he repeatedly visited Ukraine within the framework of interagency cooperation between the special services of the two countries," the SBU notes.

The report states that the first of Yegorov's henchmen, whom the SBU detained in 2020, was Major General of the Security Service Valery Shaitanov. At that time, on Yegorov's instructions, Shaitanov planned a series of terrorist attacks on the territory of Ukraine, as well as the murder of a well-known military volunteer, collected and transmitted to the Russian Federation information about secret operations in the ATO area, etc.

"After the detention of the Major General and a thorough study of all available materials, the SBU identified another Yegorov agent - Dmitry Ivantsov. He is the former deputy head of Yanukovych's security, who in February 2014 helped the fugitive president move to Russia, and himself remained in Crimea and joined the ranks of the occupiers. Currently, Ivantsov is hiding on the temporarily occupied peninsula and is a resident of the FSB. That is, among his tasks is the coordination of the subversive activities of other Russian agents in Ukraine," the SBU report says.

In 2024, according to the report, the SBU exposed another member of their cell - he turned out to be a serviceman of the National Guard. It was established that for several years this person had been passing on to Ivantsov data on Ukrainian activists, high-ranking officials, prisoners of war, information on the consequences of shelling on the territory of Ukraine, etc.

Subsequently, as the SBU reports, the Service established that another agent of Yegorov-Ivantsov was a former employee of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, who at the time of his detention turned out to be an active employee of the NABU. "According to the case materials, this official of the Bureau was recruited by the enemy back in 2012," the Ukrainian special service emphasizes.

"He continued to provide Ivantsov with the necessary information after 2014, when Yanukovych's henchman openly defected to the enemy. This is confirmed, in particular, by the confidential correspondence that the defendants resumed literally three days after the fake referendum on the "accession" of Crimea to the Russian Federation," the SBU noted.

According to the case materials, the current NABU employee is accused of having carried out more than 60 episodes of transmitting information with limited access to the former deputy head of Yanukovych's security.

"Among other things, the "mole" collected for the FSB the constituent data of Ukrainian security officers and other citizens against whom the enemy planned recruitment activities and special information operations," the report notes.

To obtain personal information about potential targets, the defendant used closed databases of Ukrainian law enforcement agencies.

The SBU notes: "After thoroughly documenting the crimes of the "mole", the SBU detained him. The phone and computer equipment that he used to contact the curator were seized from him."

Currently, the defendant has been notified of suspicion under several articles of the Criminal Code of Ukraine: Part 1 of Article 111 (high treason); Part 3 of Article 362 (unauthorized actions with information that is processed in electronic computers (computers), automated systems, computer networks or stored on media of such information, committed by a person who has the right to access it). The court chose a preventive measure for the suspect in the form of detention.

The SBU draws attention to the fact that another agent of the Yegorov-Ivantsov network, Major General Valery Shaitanov, has already received a prison term of 12 years behind bars. The National Guard official is currently in custody.

"We would like to emphasize separately: this criminal proceeding concerns an individual employee of the Anti-Corruption Bureau and is not related to the effective work of NABU as a state institution of Ukraine as a whole. As before, the SBU advocates constructive cooperation to strengthen institutional capabilities, cleanse it of pro-Russian influence, and strengthen the independence of our state," the statement said.