On November 16, the Shevchenkovsky Court of Kyiv sent the case of Oleg Kulinich to closed proceedings.
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The prosecutor said that the accused can disclose information classified as “secret” during an open hearing, reports Obshchestvennoye.
On October 14, the court began considering the case of a senior SBU official who had been detained in recent years.
The former head of the Crimean department Oleg Kulinich was detained back in July 2022 on suspicion of cooperation with Russian intelligence services. All this time, Kulinich was in jail. And finally, the court began to hear the case.
Kulinich is in a glass box in the hall.
Ukrainian and international media came to cover the process.
Kulinich is charged with state treason, participation in a criminal organization and leaving his place of military service in Kherson. The case is actually built around recordings of conversations from a flash drive found “in an apartment in which no one lived.”
Despite the fact that Kulinich’s lawyers are going to deny the possibility of using a flash drive as evidence without a primary carrier, the accused himself still stated in court that the information on the flash drive concerns not only him, but President Vladimir Zelensky, his wife, the head of the Office of the President Andriy Yermak, Sergei Shefir – assistant to the president, Prime Minister Shmygal, Oksana Markarova, ambassador to the United States and ex-chairman of the SBU Ivan Bakanov.
Kulinich quoted a fragment from a report to the FSB from the same flash drive.
Case history
According to the investigation, Oleg Kulinich (at that time an active officer on special assignments of the 1st category of assistants and consultants to the leadership of the SBU) collaborated with the FSB of the Russian Federation under the operational pseudonym “Kotigoroshko”.
According to the SBU, its activities were supervised by the so-called political office in Moscow, organized on the instructions of the FSB by the former deputy secretary of the National Security and Defense Council Vladimir Sivkovich and the former head of the Presidential Administration of Ukraine Andrey Klyuev.
Kulinich followed the instructions of his handlers to conduct reconnaissance and subversive activities against Ukraine, espionage, placing “his people” in various government and law enforcement agencies, and inciting citizens to treason.
According to the investigation, Kulinich also knew in advance about Russia’s plans to carry out an attack from the temporarily occupied Crimea on the mainland of Ukraine, but deliberately hid this extremely important information from the leadership and forbade sending any documentation in this regard to the SBU Central Administration.
In the first hours of a full-scale invasion, he deliberately blocked any attempts to inform the leadership of the SBU and society about the real situation in the region, did not take any measures to protect state sovereignty, ordered personnel to leave their place of duty, and later issued standard weapons to people who were not related to the SBU .
In addition, Kulinich himself left his place of permanent deployment and left for Kyiv on February 24. In one of the apartments where he lived, investigators found a cache of weapons and his documents from his service in the KGB of the USSR.
Source: Racurs
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