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«Sleuth.Inform» has published an investigation into extortion of $1 million in bribe involving the entourage of former head of the SBU Vasyl Malyuk.
Investigative journalists published materials from the case of NABU and SAP, where former SBU head Vasyl Malyuk is implicated. The events concern 2022 year, when defendant Andriy Osipov (known as “Andriuk Criminal”) demanded $1 million from Russian citizen Oleksandr Kuznetsov to avoid extradition.
Key facts from the investigation:
📌 Scheme and “share”: the starting price of the “question” was $2 million (from former head of the Luhansk regional state administration Eduard Lozovskyi), but Osipov lowered it to $1 million. In audio recordings, Osipov stated that the amount was agreed with “VV” (Vasyl Vasylovych Malyuk), and $200 000 from this sum were designated for him personally.
📌 Evidence of connections: SAP prosecutor Andriy Ponomarenko noted that Osipov called himself part of Malyuk’s “team,” discussed his wife Yulia, and referred to the head of the SBU as a “Korstyshev hokostman” (vulgar term). The recording also captured a conversation from 20 July 2022 year (2 days after Malyuk’s acting head of the SBU appointment), in which he complained about the workload and presidential meetings.
📌 Other defendants: In the conversations, officials of the SBU Olexander Kovalychuk, Serhiy Lysyak, generals Serhiy Duka and Illya Vityuk are mentioned. The investigation notes that there is currently no established fact of transferring money directly to SBU employees.
📌 Arrest and detention: 30 July Osipov was detained (after warning the entourage to leave the country), and 31 July VAKS remanded him in custody without the possibility of bail.
📌 Who is Osipov: a previously convicted fellow villager of Malyuk and businessman Bohdan Yakymets. According to the investigation, he acted as one of Malyuk’s “watchers,” controlled shadow businesses, and had contacts with the “watcher” for the Lukyanivske Isolation Ward Kirill Ostrovsky.
Currently, VAKS and anti-corruption bodies continue procedural actions, and the SBU has received an official request from “Sleuth.Inform” regarding involvement of the former agency head.
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