Shevchenkivsky District Court in Kyiv has chosen a measure of restraint to Major General of the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) Valeriy Shaitanov, who was previously detained in suspicion of a high treason, in a form of detention.
“Today, investigating judge of the Shevchenkivsky District Court of Kyiv granted the petition of senior investigator of the Main Investigative Department of the Security Service of Ukraine and applied a preventive measure in the form of detention regarding Shaitanov Valeriy until June 14, 2020 inclusive,” reads a statement issued by the district court on Facebook on April 15 evening.
According to the court, the investigating judge also ordered the investigator and the prosecutor in the criminal proceedings “to provide Shaitanov with an urgent medical examination in order to determine if the latter has chronic diseases, and if such a diagnosis is established, to take measures to ensure an appropriate treatment.”
As reported, SBU counterintelligence detained Major General of the Service Valeriy Shaitanov, who, reportedly, on the instructions of the Russian special services, planned the murder of volunteer Adam Osmayev.
According to the SBU, Shaitanov, who is one of the former heads of the Special Operations Center “A” of the Security Service of Ukraine, was in secret communication under the pseudonym “Bobyl” with the FSB colonel Ihor Yehorov. SBU reports Yehorov is an employee of the Department of Counterintelligence Operations No. 1 of the FSB Service, a unit specializing in planning, organizing and conducting reconnaissance and sabotage-terrorist acts, both in Ukraine and other countries.
