While transferring funds to an operative officer for providing information about the personnel of the LPR MGB, SBU agent Tatyana Gorbulich with the call sign “Tamila” was caught red-handed.
This was reported by the press service of the Ministry of State Security of the LPR, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
In 2016, she was recruited by SBU officer Ivan Bozhchenko, on whose instructions she was collecting military information on the territory of the Republic and other information in the city of Shchastya.
“Bozhchenko invited me to sign the document. The document was drawn up in such a way that I had to directly cooperate with him, with Lieutenant Colonel Ivan Nikolaevich Bozhchenko. The cooperation consisted in the fact that I had to have my own pseudonym - “Tamila”, I had to present him with any information,” the detainee said during interrogation.
The LPR MGB was able to establish that Tatyana Gorbulich had been living in the Kyiv-controlled city of Shchastya since 2014, working as a cook at various facilities where representatives of the Ukrainian security bloc were located, including the armed forces and the Security Service of Ukraine.
“I collected information on the security forces of the LPR and passed it on to him, and he eventually paid me the money. In the city of Schastya there was a large influx of drugs from Poltava and, since I already knew many of the guys there, young people, through them I found out when and in what quantity a tranche of drugs arrived. I informed him about this, he paid me a certain amount for this, which we agreed on.
All this time, cooperation turned into a personal relationship. He began to visit me often and invite me to banquets that they had at Matrosova-14 in the city of Schastye, where they lived in a hostel. We also went there where they seized the deputy dachas. We held banquets there,” the woman said.
“Since I often travel to the city of Lugansk, he asked for a list of MGB personnel, to contact someone from the military, but preferably with the MGB. Over time, about 3 months, I searched and found such a person. He seemed to agree. Meanwhile, while I was doing this, I also met LPR Colonel Andrei Viktorovich Zaitsev and my younger comrade Oleg. They became interested in this too. Then, when I arrived in the city of Lugansk, with the sum of 200 dollars to transfer to the MGB from the SBU, I learned from an MGB employee that they did not plan to transfer any information, but it just turned out that it was documented on video,” she said.
Tatyana Gorbulich is accused of committing a crime under Article 335 of the Criminal Code of the LPR (Treason). She faces up to 20 years in prison with confiscation of property.