"We carry out task given by President": Head of Security Service of Ukraine explains mass searches and promises to continue
The Security Service of Ukraine asserts that mass investigative actions that the law-enforcers are conducting on 1 February are aimed at fighting internal enemies.
Source: Vasyl Maliuk, Head of the Security Service of Ukraine, quoted by the press office of the Service
Details: According to Maliuk, these actions concern the persons that affect the security of the country in different spheres with their actions: traitors of Ukraine and agents of Russian intelligence services; members of organised crime, as well as officials, civil servants and kleptocrats that undermine Ukraine’s economy and the stable functioning of military industry.
Today, as part of the framework of open proceedings, numerous searches and handing over suspicion notices to those involved in the cases are taking place in different oblasts of the country.
The Security Service promises to gradually inform the society of further developments and results of investigative actions in the next couple of days.
Quote: "We carry out the task, given by the President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy, simultaneously causing a major blow to internal enemies.
The most salient indicator of that are mass searches, handing over suspicions and detention of criminals of ranging significance. This is only the first stage of a complex and systematic job that the Security Service is handling at the moment. And we are not planning to stop! Every criminal audacious enough to harm Ukraine — especially during wartime — has to understand very clearly that he will get handcuffed. The Security Service will do its best to make that happen."
Background:
- On 1 February, Davyd Arakhamiia, Head of the Servant of the People party faction, announced the dismissal of the entire management team of the State Customs Service and the imprisonment of corrupted staff in the spring.
- On 1 February, Ukrainian security forces and law enforcement officers conduct a series of searches among various officials and serve notices of suspicion. In particular, the searches were conducted at State Tax Service in Kyiv; oligarch Ihor Kolomoisky’s house regarding Ukrnafta company; the property of Arsen Avakov, former Minister of Internal Affairs of Ukraine, and the house of Vadym Stolar, a Kyiv property developer and a member or parliament from the banned Russian-backed Opposition Platform – For Life party.
- The Prosecutor General's Office served notices of suspicion to Bohdan Khmelnytskyi, former Deputy Director of the Defence Ministry's public procurement department; Viacheslav Shapovalov, former Deputy Defence Minister, and Volodymyr Tereshchenko, Former Deputy Director of the state-owned company Promoboronexport.
- On 23 January, Arakhamiia said that corrupted officials would face responsibility and announced the imprisonment of corrupted staff in the spring.
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