SBU counterintelligence officers detained another defendant in Kyiv who had been previously detained on suspicion of high treason of Major General Valeriy Shaitanov, the former employee of the Special Operations Center “A” of SBU, who also worked for the FSB of the Russian Federation, the SBU press center said on April 16.
“During the searches, SBU officers found a large arsenal of firearms and ammunition in the suspect. In particular, they seized the RPG-26 hand-held anti-tank grenade launcher, the under-barrel grenade launcher and two grenades for it, the STEYR 1914 pistol with a silencer, a carbine rifle, a Mauser-Werks rifle, a home-made rifle with a silencer, three RGD-5 grenades and fuses similar to them on plastid material, 12 detonator caps and more than 9,000 cartridges of various calibers,” the SBU said on Facebook.
According to the SBU, weapons and ammunition were attached to the criminal proceedings as evidence and sent for examination.
“The lawbreaker has been declared suspected of committing a crime and the issue of choosing a preventive measure for him is being resolved,” the report says.
As reported, SBU counterintelligence detained Major General of the Service Valeriy Shaitanov, who, on the instructions of the Russian special services, planned the murder of volunteer Adam Osmayev.
The SBU informs that Shaitanov, who is one of the former heads of the Special Operations Center “A” of the Security Service of Ukraine, was in fact in secret communication under the pseudonym “Bobyl” with the FSB colonel Ihor Yehorov. He, in turn, 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.
The Shevchenkivsky District Court of Kyiv chose Shaitanov a preventive measure in the form of detention.
