The head of the operational information and international relations service of the FSB, also known as the fifth service, Colonel General Sergei Beseda delivered a speech at the funeral. This was reported by RTVI.

This happened at the Moscow Troekurovsky cemetery during the funeral of the former head of the analytical department of the KGB of the USSR Nikolai Leonov. According to an RTVI correspondent, he was not allowed to film the funeral on camera due to "

The conversation, who was presented as the current head of the fifth service, called Leonov " According to Agentura.

ru intelligence researchers Andrei Soldatov and Irina Borogan, the “zone of responsibility” of the fifth service included intelligence in Ukraine.

Agentura. Common crawl en On March 11, she announced that Beseda and her deputy were placed under house arrest in connection with “theft of funds allocated for subversive and undercover work in Ukraine”. In April, the publication claimed that Beseda was transferred to the Moscow SIZO-2 "

The Investigative Committee denied that it was investigating officers of the Fifth Service.