The Security Service of Ukraine and the Prosecutor General’s Office have exposed Fedir Khrystenko, a current MP from the banned Opposition Platform-For Life party party, on charges of high treason. According to the investigation, the people’s deputy was a high-level FSB agent and was responsible for strengthening russian influence on the National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine (NABU).
The traitor has been served a notice of suspicion in absentia under the following articles of the CCU:
– 28.2, 111.1, 111.2 (high treason committed by prior conspiracy by a group of persons under martial law);
– 369-2.2 (abuse of influence).
According to the investigation, after the start of the full-scale invasion, Khrystenko fled Ukraine and continues to influence the NABU.
As established, Fedir Khrystenko was recruited by the FSB during the Yanukovych administration and is currently in close contact with Yurii Ivaniushchenko (aka Yura Yenakiievskyi), who is a resident of the FSB, ‘watching’ for the so-called DNR. In addition, Khrystenko was a liaison of collaborator Armen Sarkisian (aka Armen Horlivskyi), who died in an explosion in one of Moscow’s elite residential buildings in early 2025.
According to findings, Khrystenko actively performed tasks of the russian intelligence service during the Revolution of Dignity. In particular, for the organization of the Anti-Maidan, he used private carriers under his control to transport “titushky”.
In addition, Khrystenko is currently in close relations with some of the NABU’s leaders, including Ruslan Mahamedrasulov, the head of the NABU’s Interregional Detective Department, who has been detained by the SSU today on suspicion of doing business with russia and contacts with ruscists.
According to the available data, Khrystenko met this detective since they studied together at Donetsk University.
Moreover, Khrystenko is in close contact with the head of the NABU detective unit, Oleksandr Skomarov. There is evidence that in 2022, during the full-scale invasion, Skomarov’s wife was traveling abroad in a car belonging to Khrystenko’s wife.
Skomarov participated in the competition for the head of another law enforcement agency of Ukraine – the Bureau of Economic Security. The investigation found that if he won the competition, Ukrainian oligarch Ihor Kolomoiskyi hoped that Skomarov, as the new head of the BES, would help close the criminal proceedings against him. This information was confirmed by evidence of Kolomoiskyi’s correspondence with one of his subordinates.
However, Kolomoiskyi is not the only oligarch whom FSB agent Khrystenko tried to help. It has been documented that NABU detectives assisted another Ukrainian businessman, Ihor Kolomoiskyi’s business partner, Hennadii Boholiubov, escape.
In particular, two employees of the Bureau, Skomarov’s subordinates, accompanied the fugitive oligarch when he crossed the state border of Ukraine: they were in the neighboring compartment of the train “for safety”. According to the investigation, the corresponding “special operation” was also organized by Fedir Khrystenko.
During the searches of the contacts of the MP from the banned Opposition Platform-For Life party, Khrystenko, materials of NABU criminal proceedings were found, including documents of covert surveillance of the suspects, as well as questionnaires of candidates for detectives of the Bureau, which evidences russian influence and systematic leaks of information from the anti-corruption agency.
The SSU is taking comprehensive measures to establish all the circumstances of possible infiltration of the National Anti-Corruption Bureau by russian intelligence services.
The investigation was carried out under the procedural supervision of the Prosecutor General’s Office.