The Security Service of Ukraine has exposed an FSB agent network that collected confidential information about Ukrainian special services and law enforcement agencies, as well as domestic officials and public figures of interest to the enemy. This was reported by the SBU.
According to available data, the racists planned to use this information to eliminate, recruit and conduct information and psychological special operations against Ukrainian officials.
The cell consisted of two former bodyguards of fugitive President Viktor Yanukovych and a current National Guard serviceman.
The main agent (resident) of this cell was 48-year-old Dmytro Ivantsov, a former head of a parole unit who accompanied the fugitive president during his "evacuation" to Russia.
According to the case file, he was recruited by Ihor Yehorov, an officer of the Counterintelligence Operations Department of the 1st FSB Service, before 2012.
After the occupation of the peninsula, Ivantsov betrayed his oath, took Russian citizenship and joined the Russian Federal Security Service. The pre-trial investigation established that the traitor continued to actively work for the FSB.
He involved Roman Lapa, the former vice-head of Yanukovych's security, who also remained in Crimea and works in Sevastopol.
The group also included a 46-year-old Kyiv resident, an active member of the National Guard of Ukraine. At one time, he was Ivantsov's driver when he served in the Ukrainian Penitentiary Service.
The National Guard member used his law enforcement acquaintances to obtain information from departmental information systems and was also supposed to look for "like-minded people" to recruit.
In case of receiving this data, the traitor planned to pass it to Ivantsov through pre-prepared channels of agent communication.
The SBU documented the intelligence activities of each member of the FSB agent group and detained the suspect, who was operating in Kyiv.
During the searches, the SBU seized computer equipment, mobile phones and other material evidence of his cooperation with Russia.
Based on the collected evidence, the SBU investigators served him a notice of suspicion under Part 1 Article 111 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine (high treason). The offender is in custody. He faces up to 15 years in prison.
The criminal actions of Dmytro Ivantsov and his accomplice in Crimea are classified under Part 2 of Art. 28, Parts. 1, 2 Art. 111 (high treason committed under martial law by prior conspiracy by a group of persons) of the Criminal Code of Ukraine.
It has been established that Ivantsov handed over to the FSB the secret plans of action in case of a threat to the president's life, which he had from his time in the parole office.
The investigation is ongoing to bring to justice all persons involved in the crime.