The Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) reported the suspicion to Vyacheslav Zanevsky, who in the past headed the security service of the country's ex-president Viktor Yanukovych. According to the intelligence service, he is suspected of complicity with the aggressor state. Zanevsky is hiding in Russia.
According to the investigation, after Russia captured Kherson and part of the Nikolaev region, Zanevsky helped strengthen the new regime and helped suppress resistance. In particular, in July last year, his son, who served in one of the groups of Russian troops in the occupied territories in southern Ukraine, approached him and asked for help in identifying pro-Ukrainian activists, including veterans of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and combatants in the Donbass. Zanevsky, according to the investigation, introduced his son to the leaders of law enforcement agencies created by Russia in occupied Kherson. These people gave the Russians the personal data of local residents and facilitated the kidnapping.
In addition, it is alleged that Zanevsky advised the Russian military on the tactics of military operations against the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
Earlier in March, a Ukrainian court received a case against Oleksandr Yakimenko, who headed the SBU under Yanukovych and left for Russia in 2014. He is suspected of organizing repressions against residents of the occupied part of the Kherson region.