National Security Council has "sanctions file", everything is monitored – Danilov
Ukraine is starting the path of ousting people who have forgotten about honour, and the National Security and Defence Council is monitoring connections of those individuals who have fallen under the sanctions.
Source: Oleksii Danilov, Secretary of the National Security and Defence Council (RNBO), on the air of the national joint 24/7 newscast
Quote: "This [a series of searches carried out on February 1 by the Security Service of Ukraine, the Economic Security Bureau of Ukraine and the State Bureau of Investigation – ed.] is only the beginning of affirmative action and work that has been carried out for months in order to collect the evidence base for each of these elements [individuals who have fallen under the sanctions – ed.]. We are at the beginning of a long journey aimed at cleansing our country of the people who forgot what honour, state and country meant, and got engaged in disgraceful behaviour, especially during the war."
Details: Danilov stressed that RNBO has a so-called "sanctions file".
"Everything is monitored. If someone thinks they can help those people who have fallen under the sanctions imposed by our state, they are profoundly mistaken," he said.
Background:
- On 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.
- On 1 February, the State Bureau of Investigations carried out searches as part of its enquiry into the head of the State Tax Service in Kyiv.
- The Security Service of Ukraine and the Economic Security Bureau of Ukraine carried out a search at Ihor Kolomoisky’s residence. The search was carried out as part of an investigation into fraud in the Ukrtatnafta and Ukrnafta companies. The management of Ukrtatnafta and Ukrnafta is allegedly accused of evading customs payments and embezzling oil products worth of $1 million.
- The Security Service of Ukraine also conducted a number of searches in the properties belonging to the representatives of construction companies run by Vadym Stolar, an MP from the Opposition Platform — For Life party. These searches were carried out as a part of an investigation into their participation in the laundering of Viktor Medvedchuk’s funds and the assets belonging to other individuals who have fallen under the sanctions [Medvedchuk is another member of that pro-Russian political force].
- The Security Service of Ukraine and the State Bureau of Investigations conducted searches on the property of Arsen Avakov, former Minister of Internal Affairs of Ukraine. The case concerns the purchase of Airbus helicopters.
- President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has stated that the authorities are fighting those who are weakening Ukraine with dismissals and investigations of their criminal offences. Honesty and transparency are especially important for the Ministry of Defence of Ukraine, he said.
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