President’s Office denies instructions to prepare suspicion notice for SAPO chief

Presidential Communications Advisor Dmytro Lytvyn denied information that the head of the Office of the President of Ukraine, Andriy Yermak, allegedly instructed the head of the Specialized Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office, Oleksandr Klymenko, to prepare a suspicion.

"Fake," Lytvyn wrote on the social network X on Monday under a post by The Economist journalist Oliver Carroll.

In his post, the journalist wrote that Yermak allegedly instructed the head of the Specialized Anti-corruption Proseutor’s Office (SAPO) to prepare a suspicion after the investigation into corruption.

Earlier, the ezine Ukrainska Pravda (Ukrainian Truth), citing sources in law enforcement agencies, reported that, allegedly in order to publish the first parts of the National Anti-corruption Bureau of Ukraine (NABU) Midas investigation into corruption in the president’s entourage, Yermak tasked security officers under the control of the President’s Office to prepare a suspicion against the head of the SAPO.