Law enforcers suspected him of working for the special services of the Russian Federation. As the representative of the Security Service told journalists on the air of one of the Ukrainian TV channels, today illegal activity of one of the officials was suppressed by counterintelligence.

At the same time, the representative of the Security Service refused to give the name of the detained official, but noted that the official had access to rather narrow government insider information. During the operational work of the SBU, the facts of cooperation between the official and the special services of the Russian Federation were documented, after which this information was passed to the investigative authorities, "said a representative of the Ukrainian special services.

Recall, as reported URA-Inform, security officers of Ukraine on Wednesday morning, October 18, detained in Kiev, the chief of one of the divisions of the General Staff. The officer was caught on a bribe of three thousand dollars.