Officers of the State Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) have conducted a search at the home of Olena Berezhna, leader of the Power of Good civic union, and discovered documents and electronic media with information pointing to her anti-Ukrainian activities done on an assignment by Russian special agencies, a letter addressed to Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, and a 1 kg bar of gold there.
“At this lady’s home, among a number of papers and electronic media pointing to her illegal activities, our officers have found a letter addressed to the foreign minister of the aggressor state, Sergey Lavrov, speaking of the need to broaden the activities of Russian organizations in Ukraine. (…) It appears that what this lady had tried to protect so courageously was not documents but a 1 kg bar of gold,” the SBU said in a post on its page on Facebook on Nov. 7.
The SBU said that the investigative activities were carried out at Berezhna’s home as part of the criminal proceedings started in accordance with Article 109 (actions aimed at forcibly changing or overthrowing the constitutional system or at seizing state power) and Article 111 (high treason) of the Criminal Code of Ukraine.
Also, the SBU said that searches have been carried out at the home of the leader of the Union of Leftists party, Vasyl Volha, as well. “At his home, our officers have seized equipment for holding secret talks and magnetic media pointing to his cooperation with the aggressor state,” the statement reads.
Also, the SBU conducted searches at some other people’s homes and seized their unregistered guns and pro-Russian paraphernalia.
As was earlier reported, on Nov. 6, the SBU conducted searches at the homes of a number of members of a pro-Russian NGO, including the mother of Olena Berezhna, a former member of parliament from the Party of Regions.
