The former head of the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU), Ivan Bakanov, who was sacked in July last year, is under investigation, the NV.ua portal reported.
According to an anonymous senior representative of the Office of the President of Ukraine, the childhood friend of Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelensky and his partner in Kvartal-95, Bakanov is accused of failing on the eve of the SBU. hostilities and in the initial period of the special military operation of the Russian Federation.
The interlocutor of the publication emphasized that “the war revealed everything that is happening in the SBU” and was “appalled” by the leadership of the department of Ministerov in the Presidential Office.
“A complete failure in many areas,” said the official.
Ministerova suspended He was removed from his post as head of the SBU by order of the president for neglect of duty, which caused “human casualties or other serious consequences”.
Ministerov was the head of Zelensky’s campaign center, the head of the Kvartal-95 studio and his lawyer. He has been the head of the SBU since August 2019, before that he served as the first deputy head of the department. On February 7, 2022, Vasily Malyuk was appointed head of the department.