Volodymyr Zelenskyy, President of Ukraine, has signed a decree about the dismissal of Illia Vitiuk from the office of the Head of the Cybersecurity Department of the Security Service of Ukraine (SSU), whose wife bought an apartment worth more than 20 million hryvnias (around US$516,000) during the war.
Illia Vitiuk — the former cybersecurity chief of Ukraine's Security Service (SBU) who was suspended from his post following an investigation into his personal finances — was formally dismissed by a presidential decree issued on May 1.
"(W)e call on authorities to establish systemic safeguards that prevent SBU officials from targeting journalists or other critics in retaliation for their work, and protect journalists who report on possible misconduct or crimes by SBU officials," the letter said.
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Vasyl Maliuk, Head of the Security Service of Ukraine (SSU), has suspended Illia Vitiuk, the head of the SSU's cybersecurity department, pending an investigation into information published by the investigative journalism outlet Slidstvo.