SBU comments on Zaluzhny's info about search in 2022
The press service of the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) commented on information from former Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Valeriy Zaluzhny regarding a search in September 2022.
"During that period, the SBU was conducting investigative actions as part of another criminal investigation into the fight against organized crime at a large number of addresses. One of the addresses mentioned in the criminal investigation had recently housed one of Valeriy Zaluzhny’s secret backup command posts. In fact, no searches or investigative actions were conducted by the SBU at that address," the SBU press service said in a statement given to Interfax-Ukraine.
Additionally, Vasyl Maliuk and Valeriy Zaluzhny communicated this "immediately and personally, and the situation was clarified," the SBU added.
Earlier, Ukraine’s Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to the United Kingdom, Valeriy Zaluzhny, told the Associated Press that the SBU raided his "office" in mid-September 2022, which was a clear "act of intimidation." Zaluzhny claims the Ukrainian agents didn’t say what they were looking for, and that he refused to allow them to view documents and computers. He claims that, in the agents’ presence, he called Zelenskyy’s then-head of the administration, Andriy Yermak, and delivered a stern warning: "I told Yermak that I would repel this attack because I know how to fight."
