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Підполковника СБУ викрито на державній зраді 


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Підполковника СБУ викрито на державній зраді

26.01.2023

За процесуального керівництва Спеціалізованої прокуратури у військовій та оборонній сфері Офісу Генерального прокурора за фактом державної зради викрито та затримано підполковника СБУ одного з обласних управлінь, що межує з тимчасово окупованою територією (ч. 2 ст. 111 КК України).





За даними слідства, правоохоронець приховано збирав службову інформацію за результатами оперативно-розшукової діяльності та інформацію, яка становить державну таємницю. Зокрема його цікавили схеми розміщення блокпостів області.

За допомогою особистого мобільного телефону він фотографував документи. У подальшому, використовуючи мессенджер Теlegram та електронну пошту, зареєстровану на російському домені, передавав інформацію представникам країни-агресора.

Під час обшуків виявлено мобільні телефони, сім-картки російських операторів, грошові кошти, а також інші докази.

Також з’ясовано, що він має зв’язки, у тому числі і родинні, з представниками правоохоронних та державних органів РФ.

Наразі готується повідомлення про підозру, а також клопотання до суду про обрання запобіжного заходу.

Досудове розслідування здійснюється слідчими ГСУ ДБР за оперативного супроводу ГУВБ СБУ.

Примітка: відповідно до ст. 62 Конституції України особа вважається невинуватою у вчиненні злочину і не може бути піддана кримінальному покаранню, доки її вину не буде доведено в законному порядку і встановлено обвинувальним вироком суду.

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Ukrainian security service ‘needs cleanout’ after arrest of accused spy 



Daniel Boffey
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"The arrest of a high-ranking Ukrainian intelligence agent accused of spying for Russia has highlighted the urgent need for a cleanout of the country’s key security service, a former deputy head of the agency has said.

The Ukrainian security service (SBU) reported on Thursday that they arrested a lieutenant colonel in their ranks on suspicion of “high treason” and published a photograph of bundles of cash found in his home.

The unnamed man is said to have used his mobile phone to photograph documents detailing the location of military checkpoints in Zaporizhzhia, a frontline region in the south-east of the country, and sending the information via an email account registered on a Russian domain.


A photo issued alongside the official statement showed sim cards issued by Russian mobile carriers, bundles of foreign currency, a knuckle duster, two knives and a Russian language guide to learning English.

“Evidence of permanent connections with representatives of law enforcement and state bodies of the Russian Federation was also established,” the statement said. “In particular, close relatives of the traitor are among them.”

Maj Gen Viktor Yahun, who was deputy head of the SBU until, 2015, said there needed to a thorough cleanout of the service, which he said had long had an overly close relationship with its Russian counterpart, the FSB. . .Following Russia’s invasion on 24 February last year, more than 60 members of the SBU and the prosecutor general’s office had remained in occupied territory and collaborated with the Russian forces, highlighting the scale of the infiltration of Ukrainian law enforcement by the Kremlin.

. . .There have also been multiple arrests of SBU agents on counts of treason in the rest of Ukraine over the last 11 months, including Oleg Kulinich, who was appointed by Volodymyr Zelenskiy in 2020 to oversee operations in Crimea, which has been held by Russia since 2014. He is yet to comment.

✓ In October, Ukraine also requested the extradition from Serbia of Andriy Naumov, who used to head the department of internal security at Ukraine’s state security service but who left the country hours before Russia’s invasion. He has not commented.

Yahun said: “Kulinich and Naumov were at the top of the ranks and they had access to the most secret of information.”

✓ As late as 2010, Yahun said the SBU had internally celebrated KGB Day, marking the establishment of the communist-era Russian secret service, and there remained pro-Russian agents through the ranks of the service.

✓ Yahun claimed that the biggest attack on a military site near Lviv in western Ukraine last year had been enabled by a 77-year-old former SBU agent who had passed on the coordinate details and that he feared many in the service still considered themselves Russian.

While the generation that worked for the Soviet security services had retired, Yahun added, the recruitment practices of the SBU meant that their sons and daughters were now in the agency.

“They grew up with the same values as their fathers,” he said. “Ukraine made a major mistake in not following the lead of the Baltic nations following independence in reforming the security services from ground zero.”

“Of course there were always patriots in the SBU, but they have been in the minority,” he said. “It is getting better and since 24 February President Zelenskiy has cleaned the top ranks, so I do not believe any vital strategic information has been passed to Russia. Now they are moving their way down the ranks.”

Yahun said some SBU agents had been bribed and blackmailed into working for Russia, while others were double agents. “Others just regard themselves as Russian,” he said. “There was an arrest of a woman in her 40s working in the SBU who had been found to have been sharing Russian propaganda on social media.”

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Victor Yahun (Ukrainian: Ві́ктор Микола́йович Ягу́н; born 5 August 1970, Telenești, Moldova) is a Ukrainian military and public figure, Major general of the Security Service of Ukraine, the former deputy chairman of the Security Service of Ukraine (from March 2014 to June 2015)
 

Activities in the field of national securityEdit

Since September 1994 he was drafted for military service in the Security Service of Ukraine. From September 1994 to February 1996 he was studying at the Institute of Training of the Academy of Security Service of Ukraine (he is an honour graduate a second degree in "Law").

From March 1996 to June 2002 he was serving in operational and managerial positions in the Office of Security Service of Ukraine in Lviv region.

From July 2002 to September 2015 – in the Service at the Central Office of Security Service of Ukraine.

In December 2005, with the assistance of the Egyptian Fund for Technical Cooperation with CIS countries had attended the courses "Managing security in a crisis situation" in the Police Academy of the Arab Republic of Egypt.[4]

From 24 March 2014 to 19 June 2015 he was Deputy Head of the Security Service of Ukraine, Major General.[5][6][7]

As part of the war in eastern Ukraine during a combat mission he was a member of a group combined military and law enforcement Ukrainian agencies for liberation Sloviansk, which was occupied by Russian mercenaries. On April 13, 2014 they were ambushed Russian mercenaries, led by Igor girkin (Strelkov). During the first military clash Ukrainian security forces against terrorists in our country died captain Gennady Bilichenko(received three wounds ball, which were incompatible with life). It was the first in the history of independent Ukraine precedent of the death of officer special forces SBU "Alpha" in battle with representatives of special services of a foreign state.[8]

During his work as deputy head of Security Service of Ukraine the operational units of Service received and published unequivocal evidences of the direct involvement of servicemen of Russian Federation in hostilities in Ukraine on the operation under the auspices of the special services of the centers of the recruitment of mercenaries and preparing saboteurs to destabilize situation and support for terrorists in Ukraine.[9][10][11]

Counterintelligence under the guidance of Yahun began the struggle with the secret services of Russia and controlled their illegal paramilitary groups of separatists, renewed fighting capacity units of counterintelligence, warned a lot of terrorist attacks in major cities, significantly reduced the terrorist threat in the whole Ukraine.[12] 

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Ukraine’s Security Service uncovers suspected Russian spy in its ranks

The Kyiv Independent news desk
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Ukraine’s Security Service (SBU) reported on Jan. 26 that they detained a lieutenant colonel in their ranks on suspicion of high treason.

The lieutenant colonel is accused of conducting intelligence operations and passing state secrets to Russian contacts. According to the SBU statement, he used his personal mobile phone to photograph documents with layout schemes of military checkpoints in Zaporizhzhia Oblast and sent the information via an email account registered on a Russian domain to Russian contacts.

Ukraine’s Security Service also seized mobile phones, SIM cards issued by Russian mobile carriers, cash, and other evidence during the suspect’s detention. Their investigation is ongoing.

Since the start of the invasion, Ukraine’s Security Service has initiated investigations into more than 2,000 criminal proceedings against suspected collaborators. However, there still remains the issue of routing out collaborators from within the ranks of the SBU itself and other government agencies.

Back in July of 2022, the parliament voted to support President Volodymyr Zelensky’s decision to dismiss the head of Ukraine’s Security Service, Ivan Bakanov, for failing to effectively perform his duties. Upon firing him, Zelensky said that after the start of the full-scale invasion, more than 60 staff members from the Security Service and the Prosecutor General’s Office had remained in Russian-occupied territory and collaborated with Russians.  

In August 2022, the Security Service detained a Russian spy in their Kharkiv office. He was accused of passing along information on the activity of the Ukrainian Armed Forces to Russian contacts. The suspect was also found to be coordinating a Russian attack on the Security Service facilities in Kharkiv.

One of the stranger cases involving the SBU took place in March 2022. Denys Kirieiev, a Ukrainian businessman and a member of the Ukrainian delegation during negotiations early on in the invasion, was allegedly killed in Kyiv inside a Security Service vehicle. His death was initially reported as the killing of a Russian agent. According to recent interviews by Kyrylo Budanov, head of the Ukrainian military intelligence, Kirieiev was a Ukrainian intelligence agent. Budanov openly claimed that SBU killed him, but couldn't say why. One advisor to President Zelensky’s administration later said that Kireiev's death was due to “poor communication” between Ukrainian secret services at the start of the invasion. 

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