The reboot of the Bureau of Economic Security (BES) initiated by the parliament will change the situation in the agency's area of ​​responsibility, former Deputy Minister for Temporarily Occupied Territories and Internally Displaced Persons, volunteer Heorhiy Tuka said.

He expressed this opinion at a press conference titled "Rebooting BES: why is it important" at the press center of Interfax-Ukraine on Monday.

"I do not believe that even the BES reboot can radically change the situation in the area for which this organization should be responsible. Believe me, there are many bureaucratic methods that can paralyze the activities of an individual in any position. I am convinced that if the reboot process begins, then the team that Zelenskyy himself calls 'a team of effective managers' will be preparing to filter certain candidates at the very beginning of the selection process," Tuka said.

According to him, at the time of the creation of the BES, great hopes were placed on this body as an effective tool for reducing the level of corruption. Tuka also recalled that even during the election of the bureau's leadership, many reservations had already arisen regarding the candidates supported by the President's Office, and Western partners and public organizations were "not thrilled" with these candidates.

"One of such important officials in the bureau is the person who oversees all the BES detectives in Ukraine. This person's name is Oleh Tkachuk. It is impossible to overestimate the powers of this person, the influence of this person on certain things. This is the person who actually manages all the BES processes at the time of the pretrial investigation," he said.

According to the volunteer, Tkachuk managed to get into a number of scandals in a short period of time: he obstructed the work of the BES detectives who had uncovered illegal tobacco production on the territory of the Vynnyky tobacco factory, got into a traffic accident this summer, and drove a car belonging to a company associated with the activities of the Odesa port. Some media outlets also accused Tkachuk of inaction in investigating grain corruption schemes in the ports of Odesa, in which Odesa BES is involved.

In addition, Tkachuk has declared elite property in Podilsk district of Kyiv, not confirmed by official income, and declared large amounts of cash in dollars from unknown sources. Tuka said that despite the facts cited, Tkachuk has never become the subject of an official investigation by the BES and has not received the status of a defendant in court in the accident case. Moreover, according to Tuka, all these facts are simply hushed up.

"I believe that this is an example of shameful behavior of the person in charge and complete disregard for reports of such shameful actions by this person's colleagues in power. This is precisely the reason for the phenomenon called the demand for social justice. If Ukrainians learn of such terrible cases and do not see any reaction from the authorities, then, of course, this does not pass by, it causes indignation," he said.

As reported, on June 20, the Verkhovna Rada adopted a law (No. 10439) on rebooting the BES by 239 votes with the required minimum of 226 votes. It provides for the selection of a new director through a competition with the participation of experts delegated by international partners, as well as the certification of the bureau's employees within a year after the appointment of the new director.