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The Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense confirmed searches were conducted on Friday, 6 November, at the home of one of the agency’s employees. A lawyer arrived at the scene.
RBC-Ukraine was informed of this by a source in the GUR.
The intelligence service emphasized that the agency is ready to assist in an impartial investigation to establish all circumstances within the framework of current legislation.
At the same time, a GUR interlocutor noted that according to the second part of Article 35 of the Law of Ukraine "On Intelligence," any investigative actions concerning an active employee of an intelligence service must take place with the knowledge of and exclusively in the presence of authorized representatives of the intelligence agency. Unfortunately, that provision was not observed.
What is known about the case
The searches were reported in the morning of 6 November by lawyer Massi Nayyem. According to him, the SBU is conducting investigative actions against a GUR employee in the "alleged Monaco case" (presumably referring to the case involving an attempt on Ukrainian businessman Vadym Yermolaiev in Monaco).
Nayyem also said that investigators did not wait for the arrival of GUR internal security representatives, who he said were supposed to be present during such actions. The lawyer himself arrived at the scene.
Recall that on 29 June 2026 year an explosion occurred near the entrance to a residential building in Monaco, injuring Ukrainian businessman Vadym Yermolaiev.
The main suspect in planting the explosive was considered to be a 39-year-old Ukrainian woman, Anastasiya Berezovska, who was wanted by Interpol. However, later Anastasiya Berezovska’s body with gunshot wounds to the head was found in a forest in the Kyiv region.
In July, the National Police, the SBU, the GUR, and the Prosecutor General’s Office reported the arrest of two men on suspicion of murdering the woman. According to the investigation’s version, they could also have been involved in the attempt on the businessman.
Among those detained are GUR employee Vladyslav Reut and former SBU employee Vitaliy Zhykovych.
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