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A pretrial investigation is underway into the dissemination of personal data.
The State Bureau of Investigations denied transferring data about SBU employees to the Russian side. The press release published on 4 September states that the SBI did not provide any data on Ukrainian intelligence officers to “representatives of the Russian side,” and that Director Oleksiy Sukhachov did not give such an instruction.
In the morning, former People's Deputy Ihor Mosiychuk, who is now the author of a Telegram channel with more than half a million subscribers, published the names and other details of employees of the 5 Directorate of the SBU’s Internal Security Department (DKR) who were detained after the shootout with the GUR in Rusanivka. Mosiychuk is under NSDC sanctions for spreading pro‑Russian propaganda.
Blogger Ihor Lachenko said that a request for information about these people was allegedly made by an SBI employee on the orders of Director Oleksiy Sukhachov.
“We declare: the State Bureau of Investigations did not provide any data on employees of Ukrainian special services to representatives of the Russian side. The claim that SBI Director Oleksiy Sukhachov allegedly ordered Bureau staff to hand over such data to the Russian side is also untrue. The dissemination of baseless and false accusations is a deliberate attempt to discredit the State Bureau of Investigations and its leadership,” the bureau said.
Information about the dissemination of personal data of law enforcement officers has been entered into the Unified Register of Pretrial Investigations. Law enforcement is establishing the source of obtaining and spreading the information in question, as well as all the circumstances of its publication.
What is this about?
On 2 September, a clash occurred in the Dnipro district of Kyiv between representatives of the Main Directorate of Intelligence and the SBU. The RDK unit subordinated to the GUR reported the disappearance of a deputy commander. It later emerged that Stepan Kaplunov had been detained by the SBU. Kaplunov himself told Radio NV that after being abducted on 23 August he was held for nine days at two sites. According to him, he was denied the ability to see where he was the whole time, and during the first two days he was actively interrogated.
On 3 September the SBU reported that it had received information through operational channels about a murder being prepared on behalf of the FSB. The special service claims that “contacts were uncovered between the deputy commander of the Russian volunteer corps of the GUR of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine and the Russian FSB. The person in question was to prepare an assassination attempt against one of the leaders of the Russian opposition movement, who at that time was to arrive in Ukraine.”
The SBU says the detainee admitted contacts with the FSB and cooperated with the investigation, so no preventive measure was applied to him.
“While SBU officers were carrying out urgent investigative actions to collect and record evidence of the specified criminal offense, an absolutely unacceptable conflict situation arose that led to a shooting,” the statement said.
On 3 September the GUR reported that the organizers planned to involve media, bloggers, and Telegram channels with questionable reputations in the campaign’s implementation, including for financial remuneration.
The same day the president announced that the deputy chiefs of the GUR and the SBU would be dismissed. The SBI is investigating the case. The prosecutor general said yesterday that one representative from each structure received suspicions.
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