Ex-SBU major-general sentenced for state corruption, will spend 12 years behind bars

This was reported by the Office of the Prosecutor-General and the Security Service of Ukraine.

The former first deputy head of the SBU's Special Operations Centre "A" was sentenced to 12 years in prison. He was charged with high treason, completed attempt to commit a terrorist act, as well as illegal handling of firearms, ammunition or explosives (part 1 of article 111, part 2 of article 15 part 5 of article 27 part 2 of article 258, part 1 of article 263 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine).

Prosecutors in court proved that the major-General of the SBU collected information that constituted a state secret and passed it to representatives of Russia, - stated in the message.

In addition, the convict was looking for executors to commit a terrorist act among former SBU servicemen. The purpose of the terrorist attack was the murder of a major of the Armed Forces of the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria, who headed the International peacekeeping battalion named after Dzhokhar Dudayev in the east of Ukraine since February 2015.

It is noted that the planned murder was prevented.

Criminal proceedings on the employee of the Department of counterintelligence operations service of the FSB, which recruited the convict, is under consideration in absentia in court, - added in the Office of the Prosecutor General.

Earlier, Socialportal reported that the SBU had reported that Petro Symonenko, an ex-convict of the banned Communist Party of Ukraine, was suspected.