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| 16.07.200810:36 (GMT) | Commenting on President Viktor Yushchenko's poisoning, in an interview to daily Segodnya, the acting chief of the Security Service of Ukraine, Valentyn Nalyvaychenko, promised that the results of the investigation would be announced when law enforcers collected enough evidence. According to the SBU head, 24 officers were dismissed at a meeting of the SBU board which had been called to analyze the results of the first six months of 2008. Materials were presented which laid the foundation for the criminal cases launched against those involved in corruption and abuses, and discrediting their rank.
Nalyvaychenko says he communicates with the President twice a day, at 08:00 and 20:00. Commenting media reports that the SBU has almost become a department of the presidential secretariat, Nalyvaychenko denied any interference. He said his relationship with the head of the presidential secretariat Viktor Baloha was formal. “He reports to the head of state on what he thinks should be reported, including on the performance of the SBU, and my reaction to this is normal”. Nalyvaychenko confirmed that five spying foreign diplomats had been turned out of Ukraine since the beginning of the year; another three had been detained. 38 attempts to involve our citizens in illegal cooperation with foreign special services have been prevented. As regards the protection of state secrets, ten criminal cases have been opened, with criminal proceedings being started against three people and administrative against 500. He denied that Crimean Tatars gravitated towards terrorist groups and were becoming more radical, dismissing the problem as far-fetched. The first regional problems is that presidential decrees and decisions taken by the Security Council on Crimea are being implemented not very actively, and humanitarian programs and the development of Crimean Tatar settlements are being insufficiently funded. The second one is the fair distribution of land and the drafting of a land register. The third one is the counteraction to organized crime, namely those criminal groups which are very interested to seize property on the peninsula.
(More in today's Eurasian Secret Services Daily Report)
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