A resident of Gelendzhik is suspected of spying on the military and law enforcement.
FSB officers detained a resident of Gelendzhik, suspected of collaborating with Ukrainian special services. He faces a long sentence in a treason case.
The detained man is 27 years old. A criminal case has been initiated against him under the article on treason (Article 275 of the Criminal Code of Russia), which provides for a sentence of 12 to 20 years in prison.
According to the version of the security forces, the resident of Gelendzhik, at the request of the Security Service of Ukraine, was monitoring the vehicles of Russian military and law enforcement officials, as well as filming cars in a parking lot in Gelendzhik, reports the publication "Kuban News" citing the FSB.
During interrogation, the detained man confessed to working for the Ukrainian special services, and the court has already sent him to a pre-trial detention center.
The investigation claims that the man received money for completing tasks, and in the future, he was promised "assistance in leaving for abroad."
In an operational video released by the state news agency TASS, the suspect states that in April he contacted the Ukrainian special services via email, after which a certain Roman, presumably an SBU employee, contacted him on Telegram.
"He tasked me to go to a specific parking lot in Gelendzhik on a certain day and film all the parked cars there. I filmed the video (...) I understood that this video would be used to carry out sabotage," says the man, whose face is hidden in the recording.
The detained man clarified that the money was transferred to him in cryptocurrency. He speaks the text with the characteristic official phrasing of the security forces monotonously and without pauses.
"Caucasian Knot" also reported that on July 4, the FSB reported the detention of a resident of Anapa, who, according to the security forces, was gathering information at the request of the Ukrainian special services. In the video released by the security forces, an acquaintance identified Maxim Ovchinnikov, who had been searched for by relatives after the "carousel arrests" for several months.
At the end of March, Maxim Ovchinnikov's mother from Anapa complained that since February she had been unable to determine her son's whereabouts, who was detained by security forces in January. On April 17, she appealed to the director of the FSB of Russia, Alexander Bortnikov, demanding to inform her where her son was. Only at the end of May did it become known that he was being held in SIZO-1 in the city of Krasnodar.