The Ukrainian Security Service’s (SBU) head, Vasyl Malyuk, will give an explanation to the Verkhovna Rada about the illegal surveillance and wiretapping of the Bihus.Info investigative team not earlier than in two weeks, opposition Holos (Voice) party MP Yaroslav Zheleznyak reported on Telegram on Feb. 7.
Roman Semenchenko, former head of the National Security Department at Ukraine’s SBU security service, has been dismissed over his involvement in surveillance of the editorial team of investigative journalism outlet Bihus.Info, NV’s sources in the SBU said on Feb. 5.
Journalists from the investigative outlet Bihus.Info noticed espionage activities while looking into the case of Ukraine’s SBU Security Service eavesdropping on their team, said the outlet’s editor and journalist, Alisa Yurchenko, in an interview with Radio Svoboda on Feb. 6.