The State Bureau of Investigation initiated the removal from office of the Deputy Chairman of the Kharkiv Regional Council, who, according to investigators, has a Russian passport and other documents issued by the Russian occupation administration in Sevastopol.
“Deputy Chairman of the Kharkiv Regional Council. According to operational information, he has a passport of a citizen of the Russian Federation, which he received in 2014 in the city of Sevastopol, a driver’s license and a tax number, which is needed, in particular, to pay taxes in Russia,” the bureau said..
The SBI notes that such persons in power may be accomplices of the aggressor country and appealed to the Kharkiv Regional Council to remove the official, since an official of this rank has access to information related to the defense of the Kharkiv region and other, including classified information.
It is noted that the Kharkiv Regional Council plans to consider the issue of dismissal of an official from office in the near future..
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Although the State Bureau of Investigation does not indicate which of the deputies they are talking about, however, even before the full-scale Russian invasion, MP Irina Friz announced that the deputy chairman of the Kharkiv Regional Council, Bogdan Malovany, elected from the Opposition Platform for Life, has citizenship of the Russian Federation. Malovany himself denied this..
Based on this statement, on February 15, the chairman of the Kharkiv Regional Council, Tatiana Egorova-Lutsenko, applied to the SBU with a request to check the information about the dual citizenship of Drawn, although at the then regular session of the Regional Council there were not enough votes to consider the issue of temporary removal of Malovany from office..
A few days ago, Egorova-Lutsenko agreed that the SBU had not received evidence of information about the dual citizenship of Drawn and assured that her deputy did not have access to classified information and did not take part in meetings related to military issues..