Director of State Bureau of Investigations reports on successful searches among corrupt officials
Oleksii Sukhachov, Director of the State Bureau of Investigations of Ukraine says that numerous searches and handing notices of suspicion to civil servants and ex-officials are "just the beginning".
Source: Sukhachov’s statement
Quote: "Today’s corruption lawsuits against top officials are only the beginning. The large-scale actions of the State Bureau of Investigation are the result of hard work done by the Bureau over an extended period of time.
The Bureau has only started to inform the society of our steps to battle corruption on a high governmental level. But this work was not seized even after the full-scale invasion started by the Russian Federation. Here at the Bureau of Investigation we haven’t even for one moment forgotten that corruption is just as dangerous an enemy for Ukraine as it is for Russia."
Details: Sukhachov asserted that "there are many interesting materials" that the investigators are working on.
Background:
- Prosecutor General Andrii Kostin and head of the Ukrainian Security Service Vasyl Maliuk spoke on Wednesday after large-scale searches.
- On 1 February, Ukrainian security forces and law enforcement officers conduct a series of searches among various officials and served 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.
- On their meeting on Wednesday, 1 February, the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine fired Viacheslav Demchenko, Acting Head of the State Customs Service and his deputies, Oleksandr Shutskyi and Ruslan Cherkaskyi, as well as Tetiana Kiriienko, Acting Head of the State Tax Service.
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