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Director of the State Bureau of Investigations Roman Truba, on the program “Oh, so that’s how it is” (Bihus.info), spoke about the division of responsibilities with his deputies, his relationships with them, and commented on the Tinder scandal targeting the husband of Olga Varchenko. In particular, Truba said he tries not to take problems outside the team.
“We are young, ambitious people. She (Olga Varchenko — ed.) has her ambitions. The other deputy (Oleksandr Buryak — ed.) has his ambitions. I also have mine. But right now we head a law enforcement agency. Our most important relationships are inside the team. They should not go beyond. They should be resolved within the team. That’s what has been happening so far. From me, I have never spoken and will not speak about those problems, about those, possibly, misunderstandings that arise between us,” says the SBI director.
He also explained that he issued an order on the division of responsibilities under which investigations at the SBI are overseen by First Deputy Director Olga Varchenko, while operational units are overseen by Deputy Director Oleksandr Buryak.
“Deputies do not have the authority to make decisions to close criminal proceedings. The authority to make procedural decisions, including closing a criminal proceeding, belongs exclusively to the investigator or the prosecutorial overseer,” Roman Truba clarified in the interview.
According to Truba, he currently has a complete picture of the progress of SBI investigations and is in constant communication with his subordinates.
Regarding parliamentary amendments to the Criminal Procedure Code that make both deputies of the SBI directors of the pretrial investigation body, he noted that the biggest problem is that the deputy who oversees operational units would also be able to direct investigations.
“That is the danger. That the deputy who, by virtue of his powers, performs duties of control and organization of the operational units’ work could have straightforward access to criminal investigations and give instructions, appoint the investigator, influence the course of the pretrial investigation,” the SBI director believes.
Roman Truba said his position is that the president should not sign these changes. And he has already voiced this position to “the persons who must make the final decision.” These changes have already been passed by parliament, but two months remain unsigned by the president.
Roman Truba called the Tinder provocation against his deputy Olga Varchenko’s family “a brazen, cynical crime.” When asked whether he had discussed the incident with MP Hlib Zahori, whom political and journalistic circles mention among the possible instigators of the fake, Roman Truba replied: “I did not. And most likely I will not. Because I care about the final result (a criminal case has been opened over the Tinder provocation — ed.). I’m interested not in just arrests and suspicions, I’m interested in identifying the person who organized this brazen, cynical crime, which in some measure negatively affected the image of the creation of the State Bureau of Investigations.”
He also added: “For some reason I’m sure that in any case we will someday learn the real surname of the organizer of this conflict. And I hope that my colleagues conducting the pretrial investigation, or police officers, or [the military prosecutor’s office] will do that.”
When asked whether Truba himself knows the surname of the person who commissioned the provocation, he answered “no.”
Recall that the deputies of the SBI director are linked to the patronage of People's Deputy from the BPP Oleksandr Hranovskyi. Director of the SBI Roman Truba has recently been associated with BPP deputies Hlib Zahori and Oleksandr Tretiakov, and earlier — with People’s Front MP Serhiy Pashynskyi.
The program “Oh, so that’s how it is” is a joint project of Bihus.Info and the 24 channel; hosts are Alisa Yurchenko and Denys Bihus.
The first part of the interview with Roman Truba can be watched below.
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