The arrested NABU employee was part of a large-scale intelligence network of the Russian Federation: the SBU

The Security Service of Ukraine found out that an employee of the NABU Central Office, detained in July and connected to the D-2 unit, was part of a large-scale FSB intelligence network. In addition to him, this network included three other persons who were previously exposed by the SBU.

All agents were well trained in conspiracy matters, had access to state secrets and restricted documents. According to the case file, their activities were coordinated by Igor Egorov, an employee of the first service of the department of counterintelligence operations of the FSB of the Russian Federation. He began to form an agent network back in 2009, when he repeatedly visited Ukraine within the framework of interdepartmental cooperation of the special services of the two states.

The first of his accomplices to be detained by the SBU in 2020 was SBU Major General Valery Shaitanov. On Yehorov’s instructions, he prepared terrorist attacks on the territory of Ukraine, planned the murder of a well-known volunteer, and also collected and transmitted to Russia data on secret operations in the ATO zone.

Further investigation led to the discovery of another agent – Dmytro Ivantsov, the former deputy head of Viktor Yanukovych’s security. In February 2014, he helped the fugitive president move to Russia, after which he remained in Crimea and joined the occupiers. Today, Ivantsov is hiding on the peninsula and acts as a resident of the FSB, coordinating the activities of other agents in different regions of Ukraine.

Despite the use of complex conspiracy measures, in 2024 the SBU exposed another member of this network – a National Guard soldier. For several years, he provided Ivantsov with information about Ukrainian activists, prisoners of war, high-ranking officials, as well as information about the consequences of shelling on the territory of Ukraine.

Later, it became known about another agent, Egorov-Ivantsov, a former employee of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, who at the time of his arrest was working at NABU. According to the investigation, he was recruited back in 2012. After 2014, when Ivantsov openly went over to the side of the enemy, the NABU employee continued to give him secret information. This is confirmed in particular by the conspiratorial correspondence, which they resumed a few days after the pseudo-referendum on Crimea’s “accession” to Russia.

According to the investigation materials, he made more than 60 episodes of data transfer with limited access to Ivantsov. It is about the identification data of Ukrainian security forces and citizens who were considered by the FSB as potential targets for recruitment or conducting information operations. To collect this information, the agent used closed databases of Ukrainian law enforcement agencies.

After careful documentation of criminal activity, he was detained by the joint actions of the SBU and the Prosecutor General’s Office. During the searches, the phone and computer equipment he used to communicate with the curator were seized.

Currently, the suspect has been charged with several articles of the Criminal Code of Ukraine:

• hr. 1 Art. 111 (treason);
• hr. 3 Art. 362 (unauthorized actions with information processed in electronic computing systems or stored on media, committed by a person with the right of access).

The court chose a preventive measure for him in the form of detention. The suspect faces up to 15 years in prison.