Millionaire lost his business in Crimea and became a double agent of the SBU

The former owner of a hotel business in Crimea worked as a double agent for the Security Service of Ukraine: he accepted tasks from the Russian FSB, but eventually disrupted their implementation.

This was reported by the British newspaper Telegraph.

The man's name is Andriy - he used to be an entrepreneur and a millionaire, but in 2014 the occupation authorities took away his hotel, and in 2022 the Russians looted his company's building materials.

After these losses, the article says, Andriy agreed to cooperate with the Russians, but as a double agent. He approached FSB representatives, earned their trust, and was tasked with organizing a sabotage. Instead, the man deliberately disrupted operations and passed information to the Ukrainian special services.

According to one version, Andriy agreed to pretend to be ready for a terrorist attack and even assemble an explosive device to blow up an administrative building with dozens of employees. At the same time, he convinced the FSB officer that he was not ready to 'get his hands dirty' and allegedly managed to get the Russians to find another person to carry out the 'order'.

The article claims that Andriy substituted explosives for flour, hid the 'device' in a secret place, and later another agent, an unemployed resident of Ternopil, took it away and placed it on the threshold of the administrative building. At the crucial moment, the operation was disrupted by SBU officers who detained the intermediary.

In Andriy's story, quoted in the article, he says that he receives ''great moral satisfaction'' because he managed to prevent possible victims and use the resources of the ''rotten Russian service. According to him, he acts voluntarily and is motivated by fear for the life and safety of his family after the Russian aggression.

The agent also noted that some of his friends who had left Ukraine did not understand why he took such a job, but for him it was a way to fight the occupier and protect his loved ones.

Катерина Глушко