A serving officer of Ukraine’s military intelligence has confessed to the murder of Anastasiia Berezovska, the Ukrainian woman suspected of carrying out the 29th June bomb attack on a family in Monaco that injured three people, including a child, the Office of the Prosecutor General of Ukraine said on Tuesday. Her body was found near Kyiv with gunshot wounds to the head, and two men — the intelligence officer and a former law enforcement officer — have been detained on suspicion of her murder.
Ukrainian law enforcement opened a pre-trial investigation on 1st July, the day Berezovska arrived in the country, prosecutors said in a report seen by Monaco Life. Investigators identified the people she had been in contact with and traced her movements, establishing that, after returning to Ukraine, she had communicated with her family and with two men. The first was a former law enforcement officer; the second, a serving officer of the Main Intelligence Directorate of Ukraine’s Ministry of Defence, known as HUR.
Money sent to the suspect
Prosecutors said the two men had repeatedly transferred funds to Berezovska’s cryptocurrency wallets and bank accounts, which led investigators to examine them as people who may have been involved in the Monaco attack. Urgent searches and investigative actions followed. During these, the serving HUR officer confessed to the killing, saying he had carried it out together with the other suspect. He stated that he had not told his superiors about his contacts with Berezovska, the money transfers or his other actions, and that he had acted on his own initiative, according to the Office of the Prosecutor General.
A basement resembling a torture chamber
During a search of the former law enforcement officer’s home, investigators discovered what they described as a basement room resembling a torture chamber, prosecutors said. Both men have been detained on suspicion of murder committed by a group acting in prior conspiracy.
How the body was found
Based on the testimony of one of the suspects, investigators carried out a reconstruction of events, during which Berezovska’s body was found with gunshot wounds to the head, alongside spent pistol cartridge casings. Formal notices of suspicion are being prepared, and the investigation is continuing.
Cooperation with Monaco
The Office of the Prosecutor General said all the information available to Ukrainian law enforcement had been passed to the investigative authorities in Monaco, and that it was working in close cooperation with them. Ukrainian investigators are continuing to identify those who ordered the attempted murder of the family in Monaco, along with any others involved.
Monaco’s Prosecutor General has yet to confirm the development. Monaco Life has reached out to the victim’s lawyer for comment but had received no response at the time of publication.
Who is leading the inquiry
The pre-trial investigation is being conducted by the National Police of Ukraine, with operational support from the counterintelligence department of the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) and, prosecutors said, the personal assistance of the head of HUR, Oleh Ivashchenko — the agency whose serving officer has confessed to the killing.
See also:
Anastasiia Berezovska: Ukrainian woman wanted over Monaco parcel bomb disguised herself as man
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Photo of CCTV footage of Anastasiia Berezovska taken in Monaco before the 29th June parcel bomb attack. Source: Judicial Services of Monaco. AI enhanced for clearer image.