Nalyvaichenko Valentyn Oleksandrovych

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Two-time head of the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU), trained by the KGB and dismissed by Poroshenko — "for unsatisfactory fight against corruption"

From 1991 to 1994, he studied at the Andropov KGB Institute of Intelligence of the USSR — the same one graduated by Putin; he was expelled at his own request. Ambassador of Ukraine to Belarus (2005–2006), head of the SBU (2006–2010 and 2014–2015). People's Deputy of the VII convocation from UDAR. Leader of the "Justice" party. In June 2015, Poroshenko dismissed him from the position of head of the SBU citing "unsatisfactory results in the fight against corruption and smuggling" — during 479 days of his second term, no high-profile investigation against Yanukovych's circle was completed.

Six companies of his teenage daughter, father-in-law's land through privatization, and a criminal case for illegal border crossing

"Schemes" established: in 2008, while Nalyvaichenko first headed the SBU, his 18-year-old daughter together with his associate Nosenko founded "Smile Holding Ukraine" — the ultimate owner through Belize is connected with "Kyivmetrobud," which received highly overpriced contracts precisely during Nalyvaichenko's second term. Relatives of his wife also privatized land plots free of charge during the first term. In 2017, the SBU initiated an investigation into illegal border crossing: according to the investigation, Nalyvaichenko, along with Medvedchuk, several times entered the Russian Federation without customs control in 2014–2015. He himself called the case fabricated.