The president of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelensky, signed a decree this Wednesday to dismiss Ilia Vitiuk from his place at the head of the Cyber Security Department of Ukrainian Intelligence as a consequence of a corruption case towards him.
The Ukrainian Presidency has revealed the decree on its web site, with out providing extra details about it. Several Ukrainian media reported in early April that there have been irregularities in the buy of a luxurious condominium in the Pechersk district of the capital kyiv.
The head of the Ukrainian Security Service, Vasil Maliuk, already suspended Vitiuk from his place at the starting of April till he came upon the extent of these journalistic studies, which recommend that the buy was made by his spouse.
Ukraine has been the scene in the previous of quite a few instances of corruption and Transparency International positioned it in 122nd place out of a complete of 180 in 2021 in its examine on notion of corruption. The struggle towards these crimes can also be one of the key calls for of the European Union (EU) inside the framework of the course of for its attainable accession to the bloc.
