Irina Venediktova and Ivan Bakanov were not dismissed from their positions as Prosecutor General and Head of the SBU, respectively, but were only suspended for internal audits, after which President Zelensky will decide whether to submit the relevant submissions to Parliament, Deputy Head of the Office of the President Andrei Smirnov said on the air of an information telethon.

“There is no talk of dismissing these two officials yet.. We are talking about the fact that the Prosecutor General was removed from office, and the head of the SBU was temporarily suspended from performing his duties.. This is due to the fact that the president and all of us have been waiting for more concrete and, possibly, radical results from the leaders of these bodies to clear collaborators and state traitors,” he was quoted by Ukrinfom as saying..

The primary reason, according to him, was that in the sixth month of the war, collaborators continue to be identified in these law enforcement agencies almost weekly, therefore “in order to prevent the potential influence of these two officials on criminal proceedings that are being investigated against SBU employees suspected of collaborating with.

Smirnov explained the difference in the wording in the decrees of the head of state by the fact that the prosecutor general was "

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“This is the key difference between these two by-laws on removal from office and removal from office,” said the deputy head of the OP.

He added that official checks and investigations would be carried out in relation to Bakanov and Venediktova, and only after them the president would decide on the need to submit a proposal to parliament on granting consent to the dismissal of the prosecutor general and the head of the SBU..

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Recall the previous evening, decrees were published on the website of the President, which removed Ivan Bakanov from the duties of head of the SBU and removed Irina Venediktova from the post of Prosecutor General.

The day before, the State Bureau of Investigation detained Oleg Kulinich, the former head of the SBU in the Autonomous Republic of Crimea, on suspicion of high treason.. According to investigators, the officer changed his oath back in 2014, after the occupation of the peninsula by Russia.. According to our sources in the Service, Kulinich ruined the work of the Main Directorate of the SBU ARC. He started the reorganization and did not complete it, because of which the important structure was actually paralyzed for a long time. Despite this, Bakanov took the advice of Kulinich, who was his special officer..

Regarding the reshuffle in the Office of the Attorney General, ZN. UA has already written that under the leadership of Irina Venediktova, the practice of political orders and appointments of “their own people” has returned to the prosecutor’s office. It was Simonenko who removed the corruption case of Oleg Tatarov, deputy head of the OPU, from the jurisdiction of NABU and handed it over to the SBU, which allowed him to be quietly buried later.. Read more in read Alexander Lemenov "