Malyuk Vasyl Vasylovych
Official biography
Maliuk Vasyl was born on February 28, 1983 in Korostyshiv, Zhytomyr region.
In 2005, he graduated from the National Academy of the Security Service of Ukraine with a degree in law.
In 2001, he began his military service in the state security agencies. During his service in the regional departments of the SSU, he held positions from operative to deputy head of the department — head of the department for combating corruption and organized crime.
In January 2020, he joined the Central Directorate of the Security Service of Ukraine as the First Deputy Head of the SBU Main Directorate for Fighting Corruption and Organized Crime.
In March 2020, by the Decree of the President of Ukraine No. 86/2020, he was appointed First Deputy Head of the Security Service of Ukraine — Head of the SBU Main Directorate for Fighting Corruption and Organized Crime of the SBU Central Directorate.
Lieutenant Colonel Maliuk V.V. was awarded the Presidential decoration “For Participation in the Anti-Terrorist Operation” and a certificate of merit for his conscientious attitude to the performance of official duties in the area of the anti-terrorist operation.
He has received a number of departmental awards and incentives. He was awarded the SSU badges “For Courage” and “For Valor”.
For valor and dedication in the performance of duty, he was awarded the SBU Firearms decoration.
Participant in combat operations.
Compromising material
On January 16, the head of the SBU Main Directorate “K” Vasyl Malyuk issued an illegal order to deploy 123 SBU officers to all customs control zones of the country for a period of 2 weeks.
In his “order”, Malyuk openly writes that this is done to “search for possible offenses”.
That is, there are no facts of violations. At the same time, according to the law, access to the customs control zone, and even more so, the performance of any actions by security forces, is possible only within the framework of a specific criminal case, with specific facts and in relation to specific individuals and companies.
There is none of this, but Malyuk still organizes raids at customs posts. Why? There are two answers. 1) This is a banal coddling of white business at the beginning of the year.
2) Customs retaliated for stopping the work of the postal operator Premium Package, which operates under the cover of the SBU.
It turned out that Malyuk sent not only employees of the fourth (customs) department to the customs, but also employees of the SBU (internal security) and the VKR (military counterintelligence), which he had no right to do.
First Deputy Head of the SBU caught in tobacco smuggling scandal in Odesa port
A scandal involving high-ranking officials of category “A” on the fact of an attempt to illegally import a container of hookah tobacco into the country continues to rage in the Odesa port. Detective-Info writes about it.
It all started with the attempts of daring young people to organize a “green light” for a container of hookah tobacco mixture, the importer of which is Royal Duty Free LLC, registered in Chornomorsk. The company’s valuable cargo with a declared value of UAH 28 million was waiting in line for customs clearance when a group of unknown persons suddenly appeared in the port. First, the criminals moved the tobacco container to a customs warehouse for foreign goods. After that, they tried to export the cargo without paying any customs duties, which, according to preliminary estimates, should have amounted to about $500,000.
The confused owner of the warehouse was assured by the “tobacco solvers” that this issue had been resolved at the highest level and was being directly “taken care of” by the First Deputy Head of the SBU, the Head of the Department for Combating Corruption and Organized Crime, Vasyl Malyuk. The latter was allegedly promised $300,000 for “patronizing” the hookah cargo. However, such arguments and names did not convince the owner of the customs warehouse, he refused to help the smugglers and give instructions to release the container.
Furthermore, Lieutenant Colonel Malyuk personally started calling South Palmyra, putting pressure on his subordinates to let the hookah tobacco pass through customs control. One of the calls was to the head of the SBU regional office, Viktor Dorovskyi.
It is noted that Vasyl Malyuk was appointed to the position of First Deputy Head of the SBU — Head of the K Department by a decree of President Volodymyr Zelenskyi in March 2020. In this position, Vasyl Malyuk, along with another deputy of Ivan Bakanov, Oleksandr Yakushev, was notable for ignoring the obligation to submit an electronic asset declaration for 2019. According to the law, SBU officials were supposed to publish the relevant documents in the NACP’s open register by June 1, but this has not happened to this day.
Zelenskyy has his own “demchyna”
While we are worried about the surrender of the country in Minsk, the coronavirus and the economic crisis, Zelensky and Bakanov are worried about something else entirely.
About money. And they appoint a certain Vasyl Malyuk as the first deputy head of the SBU, the head of the K department. In 2015, this noble man was still the deputy head of the K department in the Zhytomyr region’s SBU, where he became a millionaire in the field of amber, timber and granite quarries. Not forgetting to take a decent share to his boss, Mr. Demchyna, who was then in Malyuk’s current position. Notably, Demchyna is very close to Narik. And Malyuk is also very close to the Dnipro gang. So why does the new government need a “new Demchyna”? Clearly, to fight corruption. All of these “new faces” led by Zelensky turned out to be a rare scum.
By the way, Neskoromnyi was removed. Despite the fact that he refused to hold the promised press conference on corruption in the highest echelons of the current government. I wonder why he refused. Was he intimidated by a bad pension or bought? By the way, it is said that Malyuk’s appointment was lobbied not only by the Dnipro “synagogue” headed by Narik, but also by the Kyiv “synagogue” headed by Yermak. The Dnipro “patriots” and the Russian agent Yermak have interesting connections and common business interests. Or is it just the same “synagogue” or “conservatory”?
Property looting thanks to Malyuk
In January 2020, he joined the Central Directorate of the Security Service of Ukraine as the First Deputy Head of the SBU’s Main Department for Combating Corruption and Organized Crime. It was during Maliuk’s tenure in 2009 that businessman Spodin Serhii Yuriiovych looted the property of Zhytomyrinvest, the richest enterprise in Zhytomyr region.
Since Spodin took over as acting head of Zhytomyrinvest, the company, which once built up the entire region and owned large industrial and production facilities, has lost property complexes with dozens of subsidiaries. These include agricultural enterprises, production facilities, and administrative buildings in the city center. Today it is the agricultural business of the Spodin family in Zhytomyr.
It was the Security Service of Ukraine that sued the Zhytomyrinvest OJSC subsidiary, the Design and Survey Department, in 2008 over the distribution of residential space in Zhytomyr. However, the construction business is also one of the activities of Spodin S.Y. It is possible that Maliuk Vasyl Vasyliovych may not have known or communicated with the businessman Spodin S.Y., who at that time dominated the Zhytomyr region, easily seized state property and ensured the construction of housing, which was later provided to SBU employees, among others. Most likely, S.Y. Spodin is the most important player from the SBU. Earlier, the media reported on his joint ventures with the security forces: in 2015, SBU officers seized 115 pieces of equipment from the office of Lucky Labs (software developers, online games and online casino owners). Immediately after the search, security officials reported that “the illegal online business, which financed terrorists, was shut down.”
Under the guise of reorganizing the SBU, the authorities are trying to build a system of corrupt extortion
It all started when, in the spring of 2020, President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy “presented” his associate Ivan Bakanov with two deputies by decrees issued a week apart. Vasyl Malyuk became the first deputy head of the SBU. He also headed the Main Department for Combating Corruption and Organized Crime.
Oleksandr Yakushev became the second deputy. Before his appointment, nothing was known about him. According to Ukrayinska Pravda, which published an investigation into the awarding of weapons, it was Oleksandr Yakushev who had previously worked as an assistant to the head of the SBU, the head of the SBU department in the SBU headquarters, when Valentyn Nalyvaichenko was head of the SBU.
During the same period, the President appointed three more people to key positions in the SBU in the regions — Oleh Saliuk as head of the SBU in Sumy region, Pavlo Revunov as head of the SBU in Chernihiv region, and Volodymyr Krasnyansky as head of the SBU in Dnipropetrovs’k region.
This does not look like an ordinary reshuffle. Replacing the heads of SBU departments in several key regions, as well as two key deputies, within two weeks does not just happen.
However, less than six months after the appointment, everything fell into place. At first, according to the Anti-Corruption Action Center, it turned out that both deputies violated the very legislation they were supposed to protect. Both Vasyl Malyuk and Oleksandr Yakushev “distinguished themselves” by failing to submit their income declarations.
In early June, the center’s experts analyzed the officials’ declarations and stated that neither Malyuk’s nor Yakushev’s declarations were in the register. “The situation is ironic: the head of the anti-corruption department did not file a declaration. We hope that he and his colleagues who did not file a declaration know that the Criminal Code provides for a fine of up to two years in prison for intentional failure to file a declaration,” commented AntAC lawyer Andriy Savin at the time.
Since then, the attention of journalists has been focused on both top officials of the Security Service of Ukraine. In particular, to Vasyl Malyuk, whose most interesting details of his biography are hidden from the public. Before his appointment to Kyiv, he was the deputy head of the Department for Combating Corruption and Organized Crime in Zhytomyr region. As you know, Zhytomyr region is one of the leading regions in terms of crime due to illegal amber mining.
For several years, investigative journalists have been discovering entire villages in the forests. In these villages, illegal amber miners worked with motorized pumps. It was the activities of these miners that Malyuk’s department was supposed to be actively interested in. And there is a suspicion that it was interested in them, but not in terms of laws, but in terms of “covering” this business. After all, it is hard to imagine that illegal mining was carried out without the knowledge and permission of the SBU.
While investigative journalists had no trouble finding the miners, the Security Service of Ukraine, with all its material and human resources, must have had sufficient information about this illegal activity. In several publications, Malyuk is credited with becoming a millionaire from amber mining.
After his appointment in Kyiv, Malyuk began to build a familiar environment around him. According to the KyivVlada portal, Malyuk, for example, lobbied for the appointment of his former boss, Oleh Holovash, as the head of Ukraine’s largest regional SBU office in Kyiv and the region.
Summary
All these facts give the impression that the SBU exists to cover up smuggling and other criminal activities. Malyuk, as the first deputy head of the SBU, is directly involved in criminal cases, and his past is carefully concealed.