In Ukraine, a shipbuilder of “Ukroboronprom”, who cooperated with the Russian Federation and Iran, was arrested
15.02.2024 - 11:03
The SBU detained an engineer who wanted to hand over the latest Ukrainian developments in the field of military shipbuilding to the special services of the Russian Federation and Iran.
As the SBU press service , as a result of a special operation in Mykolaiv, a design engineer of “Ukroboronprom” was arrested “red handed”. The official secretly copied and tried to “leak” technical documentation on Ukrainian secret developments to foreign special services.
According to the SBU, the attacker had to transfer information to two “clients” at once:
• A Russian who works at one of the machine-building plants of the Russian Federation and cooperates with the special services of the aggressor country;
• A citizen of Iran, who was previously convicted of espionage in Ukraine.
The SBU notes that the enemy special services hoped to obtain the latest Ukrainian developments in order to establish the serial production of their own components for warships.
Among the main companies that planned to use Ukrainian technologies were Russian factories that build ships for the Russian navy.
The perpetrator is currently in custody. He faces life imprisonment.
