Former Major General of the SBU Shaitanov was sentenced to 12 years in prison for treason and attempted terrorist attack.
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On August 14, the Shevchenkovsky District Court of Kyiv found Valery Shaytanov, former first deputy head of the Special Operations Center “A” of the SBU, guilty of high treason, attempted terrorist act, as well as illegal handling of weapons, ammunition or explosives with fire.
He was sentenced to 12 years in prison with confiscation of property.
Shaitanov was detained in April 2020, the hearing of the case began in October of the same year. Prosecutors proved that the defendant collected information constituting a state secret and passed it on to representatives of Russia.
According to the SBU, the investigation established that the official was under the pseudonym Bobyl with FSB Colonel Igor Yegorov. The latter, under the call sign Elbrus, was one of the organizers of the occupation and deployment of terrorist activities in the Donbass in the summer of 2014.
Also, on the instructions of the special services of the aggressor country, the convict was looking for persons among the former SBU servicemen to commit a terrorist act. His goal was to assassinate Major Adam Osmaev of the Armed Forces of the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria, who since February 2015 during the war in eastern Ukraine led the International Peacekeeping Battalion named after Dzhokhar Dudayev.
Source: Racurs
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