SBU installed collaborators who helped the Russians steal Ukrainian grain for over $ 200 million

"The Ukrainian intelligence service has installed the entire chain of involved: from traitors who have signed permits for grain removal, and ending with all the crew members of ten ships of the Russian Federation, on which they transport the loot," - said in the message. The intelligence service has already announced the suspicion of the "head" of the Russian occupation administration in the Zaporizhzhya region Yevgeny Balytsky, self -proclaimed «V. O.

Mayor »Berdyansk Oleksandr Saulenko and" Director "of Berdyansk Sea Volodymyr Stelmachenko. They are suspected of collaboration, the absence of aggressor and violation of the laws and customs of war. Other participants of the scheme are prepared by suspicion. The property and corporate rights of Balytsky and his family were also arrested for more than UAH 149 million.

According to the SBU, after the "order" of the collaborator of the Balician pseudo -enterprise "State Grain Operator" illegally received the property of seven agro -industrial complexes and grain terminals in Zaporizhzhia region. Pseudommer Saulenko and the so -called Director of Berdyansk Seaport Stelmachenko were engaged in theft of grain from warehouses and illegally loading it on the vessel of Zhibek Zhola under the Russian flag.

"The operatives also documented the export of by sea transport stolen from the temporarily occupied territories of Kherson and Zaporizhzhya regions of Ukrainian grain through seaports and terminals located in the temporarily occupied territory of Crimea," the SBU said. The intelligence service found that the stealing of the grain is involved in the flags of the Russian Federation and Syria Nadezhda, Sommovsky-48, Fedor, sailor Basket, sailor Poznych, Zhibek Zholy, St.

Constantine, Michael Nenashev, Laodicea. The Ukrainian court seized the ships and the products they were transporting, and Turkey, Egypt and Lebanon refused to accept and unload ships. The SBU also installed seven foreign vessels that illegally export grain from ports in temporarily captured territories - they plan to seize them.

"As part of international cooperation with law enforcement agencies, Turkey, Lebanon and other states, a joint investigation is underway to establish all the circumstances of the offense, including the arrest of sea vessels that carry the stolen Ukrainian grain in the ports of destination," the SBU added.