The court has dismissed the case against NABU detective Gusarov: treason was not proven, and the other charge was dismissed due to the statute of limitations
This was reported by the Anti-Corruption Centre.
According to the Anti-Corruption Centre, prosecutor Ruslan Izhuk dropped the charges of treason against Viktor Gusarov, so the Shevchenkivskyi District Court of Kyiv acquitted the NABU detective of criminal liability.
The prosecutor stated that it had not been possible to conclusively confirm Gusarov’s membership of the spy network with which he was suspected of collaborating, and therefore requested that the treason proceedings be closed.
The Central Criminal Court added that Gusarov now faced only charges under the article on ‘unauthorised handling of information’, but as the statute of limitations had already expired, the prosecutor requested that Gusarov be acquitted.
“Justice has finally been done. But the question arises: will those who unjustifiably held the detective in pre-trial detention for over five months and spoke of ‘Russian influence in the NABU’ be held accountable?”, the Anti-Corruption Centre stated.
The Anti-Corruption Centre states that the Gusarov case was “used by the Office of the Prosecutor General and the SBU as a pretext for an attack on anti-corruption bodies” in July 2025.
At the same time, law enforcement officers detained detective Ruslan Magamedrasulov and his father on suspicion of aiding Russia. According to the investigation, the detective helped his father (who holds a Russian passport) to sell industrial hemp to Dagestan.
The Gusarov case: what is known
As a reminder, Viktor Gusarov is suspected of passing data from the closed ARMOOR database of the Ministry of Internal Affairs to Dmitry Ivantsov between 2012 and 2015. Ivantsov was a bodyguard to the fugitive president Viktor Yanukovych and served in the State Security Service. The investigation claims that Gusarov was aware of Ivantsov’s flight to the temporarily occupied Crimea in 2014, but continued to pass data to him nonetheless.
Viktor Gusarov’s lawyer, Olena Storozhuk, stated at the court hearing that he admits to sending data to Ivantsov. According to the lawyer, the purpose of providing the data was for Ivantsov to check people “for his work”.
According to the defence, Gusarov did not know that Ivantsov had fled to Crimea in 2014 and continued to send data because he considered him to be a “current employee of the UDO”. Gusarov’s words were confirmed by a lie detector test back in 2024, the lawyer claimed.
Back in July, Gusarov was charged under articles relating to high treason (Part 1 of Article 111 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine) and unauthorised handling of information (Part 3 of Article 362 of the Criminal Code).
The offences carry a maximum sentence of 15 years’ imprisonment. Gusarov was remanded in custody on 22 July, where he remained until 10 December 2025 — at which point his bail conditions were changed to 24-hour house arrest.
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