SBU uncovers FSB agent network with Yanukovych's ex-bodyguards and National Guard soldier

The Security Service of Ukraine reported the neutralization of the FSB agent network, which included former former President Viktor Yanukovych's bodyguards and a current National Guard serviceman, UNN reports.

The SBU exposed an agent network of the Russian Federal Security Service that collected confidential information about Ukrainian special services and law enforcement agencies, as well as Ukrainian officials and public figures of interest to the enemy. The cell included two former bodyguards of fugitive President Viktor Yanukovych and a current member of the National Guard

According to the SBU, the racists planned to use the information "to eliminate, recruit and conduct information and psychological special operations against Ukrainian officials.

"The main agent (resident) of this cell was 48-year-old Dmytro Ivantsov, a former head of the parole unit who accompanied the fugitive president during his "evacuation" to Russia," the statement said.

According to the case file, he was recruited by Igor Yegorov, an officer of the Department of Counterintelligence Operations of the 1st Service of the Russian Federal Security 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. To this end, he involved Roman Lapa, a former vice-head of Yanukovych's security, who also remained in Crimea and works in Sevastopol," the SBU said.

Also, according to the SBU, the group "included a 46-year-old Kyiv resident, an active serviceman of the National Guard of Ukraine. At one time, he was reportedly Ivantsov's driver when he served in the Ukrainian Penitentiary Service.

"The National Guard officer used his law enforcement acquaintances to obtain information from departmental information systems and was also supposed to look for "like-minded people" for recruitment. In case of receiving this data, the traitor planned to transfer it to Ivantsov through pre-prepared channels of agent communication," the SBU said.

The Security Service, as noted, documented the intelligence activities of each member of the FSB agent group and detained a person who was operating in Kyiv.

He was served a notice of suspicion under Part 1 Art. 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 qualified 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. "It has been established that Ivantsov handed over to the FSB the secret plans of action in case of a threat to the life of the President, which he had from his time in the penitentiary," the SBU said.

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