The SSU counter-intelligence has prevented the transfer of the latest Ukrainian technologies in military shipbuilding to Russian and Iranian intelligence agencies.

The Security Service of Ukraine reported on this.

As a result of a multi-stage special operation in Mykolaiv, a design engineer at a strategic Ukroboronprom enterprise has been detained.

He covertly copied and tried to pass on to foreign intelligence services technical documentation on Ukrainian secret developments in the field of ship engine construction.

According to the SSU сounterintelligence, the detainee was going to pass the information to two ‘customers’ at the same time. The first was a Russian who works at a Russian machine-building plant and cooperates with the Russian intelligence services.

The other turned out to be an Iranian citizen who cooperates with Iranian intelligence and was previously convicted in Ukraine for espionage.

He is currently in a Middle Eastern country working for Iran’s intelligence under the cover of a local high-tech company employee. The two foreign nationals acted independently from each other, keeping in touch with the Ukrainian engineer through anonymous chats in messengers.

According to available information, foreign intelligence services sought to obtain technical documentation of new developments in the engine industry to establish mass production of their own parts for warships.

The companies that planned to use Ukrainian technologies were mainly Russian plants that are building vessels for the Russian Navy.

The SSU counterintelligence prevented the transfer of classified information. During the search, the SSU seized a mobile phone used for photographic recording of documents and communication with foreign spies.

The detainee is in custody and faces life imprisonment.

Militarnyi previously reported that the Security Service of Ukraine detained an agent of the Russian special services who installed webcams near the Mykolaiv seaport to spy on Ukrainian warships.