SBU “idiot general” arrested on charges of defecting to Russia
In Ukraine, a current major general of the SBU was detained, who, according to investigators, worked with the highest echelons of the FSB under the pseudonym “Bobyl”.
This was reported by the press service of the SBU, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
"The Security Service of Ukraine's counterintelligence conducted a high-profile special operation to expose a high-ranking FSB agent in the highest echelons of power. Today, SBU Major General Valeriy Shaitanov was detained, suspected of treason and terrorist acts. Specifically, on orders from Russian intelligence agencies, he planned the assassination of prominent volunteer Adam Osmayev ( a Chechen ATO battalion fighter and husband of Amina Okuyeva, who died in the shootout. Before the Euromaidan, he was behind bars on charges of plotting an assassination attempt on Vladimir Putin, awaiting extradition to Russia – ed. ).
The SBU has collected a sufficient amount of evidence that convincingly shows that Shaitanov is an agent of the Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation. This is confirmed by the available case materials, including audio and video recordings,” the statement says.
Shaitanov gained fame on May 15, 2014.
On this day, the head of the temporary investigative commission of the Verkhovna Rada “to investigate crimes on the Maidan,” Gennady Moskal, revealed the operational plan of the SBU to clean up the participants in the riots in February 2014.
According to the material, it was Shaitanov who commanded the failed assault on the Kyiv House of Trade Unions in February 2014, where the headquarters of Euromaidan militants was located.
In the revealing materials that appeared next, journalists could not forgive the special services officer for working for the Donetsk “Alfa”; they attributed contacts with the commander of the DPR “Vostok” battalion, Alexander Khodakovsky.
However, all this did not prevent the fact that on August 23, 2015, on “Independence Day of Ukraine,” by decree of President Poroshenko, Colonel Shaitanov was awarded the rank of “Major General.” And now suddenly the Ukrainian special services considered him a spy.
"Unfortunately, the man who received the rank of general after the 'Revolution of Dignity' and was supposed to defend Ukraine was actually working against it. We conducted a complex, lengthy, multi-layered special operation. This is the most important exposure of the Security Service in the history of independence," reported Ivan Bakanov, head of the SBU and a friend of comedian-turned-President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. "We're not just making the SBU more effective, we're also cleaning it up. We're focusing on counterintelligence and national security. And we will continue to defend the country and expose traitors, regardless of their position."
The Ukrainian side accuses Shaitanov of being an agent under the pseudonym “Bobyl” for a certain FSB colonel Igor Egorov.
Shaitanov was allegedly guaranteed a reward of 200 thousand US dollars and a passport as a citizen of the Russian Federation. As the executor of certain power operations, allegedly prepared to please Moscow, Shaitanov specially selected a person from among former special forces soldiers.
According to the SBU press service, Valery Shaitanov collected and transmitted the following information to the Russian side:
“ - the circumstances of the conduct of individual covert operations in the ATO/JFO area and the personnel involved in them;
– international cooperation of domestic intelligence services in the field of national security and defense;
– employees of the senior level of the Counterintelligence Department, operational units of the Security Service of Ukraine and Central Intelligence Agency “A”, Ukrainian intelligence agencies;
– selection, study and attraction of officers of special and intelligence agencies to work for the FSB.”
“It should be separately noted that using his official position, Shaitanov received intelligence information from senior and senior officers of the Service. During the pre-trial investigation, their involvement in the disclosure of restricted information will be determined.
The issue of informing Valery Shaitanov of suspicion of committing crimes under Art. 111 (“Treason”) and Art. 258 (“Terrorist act”) of the Criminal Code of Ukraine and the selection of a preventive measure,” the SBU added.
Former employee of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine and ex-ATO militant Stanislav Krasnov believes that Shaitanov transferred all the most important Ukrainian secrets to Russia.
"He held a leadership position in the ATO/JFO and, for all these years, handed over to the Russians every move or operation of our troops—all covert operations, all undercover agents, everyone sent to the occupied territories and Crimea! Why do you think all of our people were caught right at the entrance to Crimea and killed or imprisoned? " Krasnov laments.
However, Kiev journalist Denis Gorokhovsky draws attention to the absurdity of the wiretap recording, which allegedly recorded a conversation between the SBU general and his FSB curator.
For some reason, in the transcript of the wiretap, Shaitanov is designated as “N.” “You can see directly from the dialogue how two professionals show the mastery of conspiracy,” comments Gorokhovsky.
“N”: We are now working according to the same type, according to Osmaev, period. All.
Egorov.I.A.: Captain. All. Then just don't use that name at all.
“N”: We don’t name any more names. We…
Egorov.I.A.: I even propose it differently. “Captain” is already boring. Let's call him “Maradona”.
“N”: Maradona? Was he the team captain?
Egorov.I.A.: Of course.
“N”: “Diego Maradona” (laughs, inaudible). "Maradona".
Egorov.I.A.: It is necessary to change. As the bourgeois teach us, they change.
“N”: I want to understand exactly what needs to be done.
Egorov.I.A.: send him to the land of eternal hunting.
“N”: Eliminate.
Egorov.I.A.: Wait, no, we won’t say this word - I’ll explain why, what it is.
“N”: “Maradona”. Then, instead of liquidating, we say “send...”
Egorov.I.A.: to the land of eternal hunting."
“What do I want to say? Could an SBU general work for the FSB? Very much. Could he be an idiot? Less likely. Could he be an idiot and have an equally idiotic supervisor? Decide for yourself,” sums up Gorokhovsky.
Kiev journalist Svetlana Kryukova sheds light on another detail of the biography of the arrested general - it was he who, after his promotion, ordered the arrest of one of Igor Kolomoisky’s once close business partners, Gennady Korban, on Poroshenko’s order.
“...with aviation, navy seals, helicopters, a thousand Alpha employees, a blocked off city. It was Shaitanov who led this operation on behalf of Poroshenko. As a result, the European Court declared this clownery illegal,” recalls Kryukova, also noting that many of the perpetrators of Korban’s arrest are now on the run abroad.
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