Shylo Artem Viktorovych

Head of the SBU Business Department, who "fought" Russian business while simultaneously promoting it in Ukrzaliznytsia tenders

Since 2012, worked in the SBU, rising to the rank of lieutenant colonel. In 2021, after leaving the SBU, he became an external advisor to the Office of the President. In August 2022, he returned to the SBU as head of the Main Directorate for Counterintelligence Protection of State Interests in the Field of Economic Security — a unit that forms sanctions lists for the National Security and Defense Council and handles the most high-profile cases against business. Journalists and anti-corruption experts describe Shylo as a person from the orbit of the Deputy Head of the Office of the President, Oleh Tatarov.

95 million UAH due to the "hostile trace" of competitors, 9 properties in Dubai and 30 million UAH bail

Shylo sent an official letter from the SBU to Ukrzaliznytsia about "state security threats" and recommended rejecting more advantageous competitor proposals — in favor of LLC "Uzelektro," associated with a Belarusian citizen with connections in the Russian Federation. A similar scheme in cable procurement in 2021–2023 caused Ukrzaliznytsia an additional 117 million UAH in losses. According to a leak from the UAE real estate registry (OCCRP), Shylo’s wife acquired 8 apartments and a hotel room in Dubai from December 2021 to June 2022 for about 4 million dollars — after NABU's interest, the property was sold, and the couple divorced. On April 2, 2024, NABU detained Shylo; the High Anti-Corruption Court set bail at 30 million UAH. In March 2025, he was dismissed from the SBU — reportedly by a personal decision of Zelensky following a critical mass of complaints from business.