The previous chief of the SBU Cyber Department, Ilya Vityuk, has been charged with unlawful enrichment and fabricating asset declarations

The previous chief of the SBU Cyber Department, Ilya Vityuk, has been charged with unlawful enrichment and fabricating asset declarations

Ukraine’s anti-corruption prosecutors have charged Illia Vitiuk, former head of the Security Service’s cyber department, with illicit enrichment and false asset declarations. Investigators of the country’s National Anti-Corruption Bureau (NABU) allege his family acquired Kyiv real estate worth more than 25 million hryvnias ($604,300) through suspicious payments tied to his wife’s business and firms linked to organized crime.

The Security Service denounced the case as “revenge” by the NABU and prosecutors, citing Vitiuk’s role in Ukraine’s cyber defenses and service on the front line.

The charges follow a Slidstvo.Info investigation that revealed the assets, prompting Vitiuk’s reassignment and reported harassment of one of the outlet’s journalists.