MP Oleksandr Dubinskyy has been suspected of treason. The Security Service of Ukraine and the State Bureau of Investigation collected evidence of his information and subversive activities in favour of Russia.
According to the investigation, Dubinskyy had the call sign Pinocchio and was a member of a criminal organisation formed by the Main Directorate of the Russian General Staff (GRU). This was reported by the SBU press service.
The name of the MP is not mentioned, but it is obvious from the photo and the details provided that it is Dubinskyy. The testimony against the MP was given by the detained coordinator of the network, who has already been sentenced and is serving his sentence.
"The main task of this organisation is to undermine the socio-political situation in Ukraine and discredit our country in the international arena. For this, the group members received money from the Russian military intelligence," the statement said.
Based on the evidence gathered, the Prosecutor General of Ukraine served a notice of suspicion to the member of the criminal organisation, a member of the Parliament, under two articles of the Criminal Code of Ukraine:
- Part 1 of Article 111 (high treason)
- Article 255, part 1 (creation, leadership of a criminal community or criminal organisation, as well as participation in it).
According to the available data, the network's funding reached over $10 million.
It is documented that the MP has spread fakes about the highest military and political leadership of our country. One example of disinformation work is the spread of fakes about the alleged interference of Ukrainian officials in the 2019 US presidential election.
To spread pro-Russian narratives, he participated in relevant press conferences. The press service of the State Bureau of Investigation added that the investigation has documents confirming Dubinskyy's presence in Russia in October 2019 before the press conference.
"According to the plan of Russian curators, as a professional 'media killer', he was supposed to place the necessary accents primarily for the Western audience," the SBI said.
The criminal organisation was created by the deputy head of the Russian GRU, Vladimir Alekseyev, as an agent network operating in Kyiv. The operational management of the enemy group from the territory of the Russian Federation was carried out by his deputy, Alexey Savin.
According to the investigation, in addition to Dubinskyy, the enemy group included former MP Andriy Derkach, who fled abroad on the eve of the full-scale invasion. This former MP is already suspected of treason. Today, he and his assistant were served with a notice of suspicion of participation in a criminal organisation.
The former prosecutor Konstantin Kulyk was also a member of this agent network. He had the call sign Ptichka and is currently hiding from justice abroad. During the course of information sabotage against Ukraine, Kulyk was publicly engaged in pseudo-legal justification of fakes in favour of the Kremlin.
The subversive activities of the criminal organisation in Kyiv were coordinated by Derkach's former assistant, a former employee of the Soviet Union's GRU, Igor Kolesnikov, who has already been convicted and is serving a sentence for high treason.
Alekseyev and Savin, as well as Derkach and Kulyk, were also suspected of high treason and creating and participating in a criminal organisation.
The issue of choosing a measure of restraint for Dubinskyy is being decided. The investigation is ongoing to establish all the circumstances of the crime and bring the perpetrators to justice. The offenders face up to 15 years in prison with confiscation of property.
This is the third suspicion that Oleksandr Dubinskyy has received. He is also suspected of forging documents for his own travel abroad and of creating a scheme for another man's travel abroad.
Sources in law enforcement agencies reported today about the searches of Dubinskyy's house in the case of high treason. According to UP's sources, the case concerned a scandalous press conference "New facts about international corruption, Burisma and the scheme to bring Ukraine to bankruptcy", which Dubinskyy held in 2019 with the participation of former MP Andriy Derkach.
In 2020, the then Prosecutor General Iryna Venediktova, who is now the ambassador to Switzerland, refused to open proceedings on the Anti-Corruption Action Centre's statement about Dubinskyy and Derkach's possible high treason because the AntAC "did not provide actual evidence of the crime". Derkach was notified of the suspicion only in 2022, when he had already fled the country.