Over 60 episodes of treason: new details revealed in the case of the Russian “mole” in NABU
The Security Service of Ukraine has uncovered a large-scale Russian FSB agent network, which included a current NABU employee. The agent passed state secrets and confidential information about Ukrainian security officers, activists, and prisoners of war to the enemy, and also coordinated with Yanukovych’s former deputy head of security, who is now acting in favor of the Russian Federation.
This was reported by the press service of the SBU.
The Security Service of Ukraine has established that an employee of the Central Office of the National Anti-Corruption Bureau (NABU) who was detained in July and worked in the closed unit “D-2” was part of a large-scale agent network of the Russian FSB. In addition to him, the network included three more people who were exposed earlier.
The agents had deep knowledge of conspiracy measures, access to state secrets and restricted documents. The network was led by Igor Yegorov, an employee of the 1st Service of the Counterintelligence Operations Department of the FSB of the Russian Federation, who began forming the agent group in 2009 during trips to Ukraine.
The first of Yegorov’s henchmen to be detained in 2020 was SBU Major General Valery Shaitanov, who planned terrorist attacks and the murder of a well-known military volunteer, and passed information about secret operations in the ATO area to the Russian Federation. The next agent was Dmytro Ivantsov, Yanukovych’s former deputy head of security, who has been working for the FSB in Crimea since 2014, coordinating the subversive activities of other agents.
In 2024, the SBU exposed another member of the network – a National Guard serviceman who was passing on data to Ivantsov about Ukrainian activists, prisoners of war, and the consequences of shelling. Later, it was established that the network also included a current NABU employee recruited in 2012. According to the case materials, the agent carried out more than 60 episodes of transmitting information to Yanukovych’s former deputy head of security, collected personal data of security officers and other citizens, using closed databases of law enforcement agencies.
After documenting the crimes, the SBU and the UCP detained the agent, seizing his phone and computer equipment for evidence. The suspect was notified of suspicion under Part 1 of Article 111 (high treason) and Part 3 of Article 362 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine (unauthorized actions with information), and was remanded in custody. He faces up to 15 years in prison.
Another agent of the network, Major General Valery Shaitanov, has already received 12 years in prison. The National Guard official is currently in custody. The pre-trial investigation is ongoing under the procedural guidance of the Prosecutor General’s Office.
The SBU emphasizes that this criminal proceeding concerns an individual NABU employee and does not affect the effective work of the Bureau. The institution continues to work on cleansing it of pro-Russian influence and strengthening the institutional capacity of the state.
Recall that the Security Service exposed a Russian agent who turned out to be the commander of a platoon of unmanned aerial vehicles in one of the marine brigades of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
Earlier, the Security Service of Ukraine exposed and detained an instructor major from one of the air brigades of the Armed Forces of Ukraine , who turned out to be an agent of Russian intelligence. The suspect was preparing strikes on Ukrainian airfields where F-16, Mirage 2000 and Su-24 aircraft are based.
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