Replacing Kostin and Malyuk: new personnel decisions are being prepared on Bankova Street
4 April 2024 15:37
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Oleh Kiper, the head of the Odesa Regional Prosecutor’s Office, is planning to become the new head of the Prosecutor General’s Office. Vasyl Malyuk may be replaced by his current deputy, Oleksandr Poklad, as head of the SBU, Komersant ukrainskyi 
citing its own sources in Ukraine’s law enforcement agencies.
According to the source, Vasyl Malyuk wrote a letter of resignation immediately after the scandal with the surveillance of journalists of the Bigus.Info project broke. However, his report was put aside and a decision was made: “We are still working.”
While earlier, according to various sources, after Vasyl Malyuk’s dismissal from the SBU, his candidacy was allegedly considered for the post of Minister of Internal Affairs, now “the issue is no longer the same”.
According to the source, the idea of moving Malyuk from the SBU to the post of Interior Minister has now been abandoned.
As for the head of the OGP, Andriy Kostin, he was informed of the intention to dismiss him several months ago, and he “did not object,” the sources told Komersant ukrainskyi .
As part of the “reset of power” announced and already partially implemented by Bankova, the head of the Odesa Regional Prosecutor’s Office, former Kyiv City Prosecutor Oleh Kiper, is to be appointed Prosecutor General.
The latter, as confirmed by several sources, is close to the leadership of the OP.
“In particular, he has ‘an effective working relationship with the head of the OP Andrii Yermak’. He has also “proven himself well in various positions in recent years”,
– adds one of Komersant’ s sources .
Personnel decisions from Bankova Street will not end with high-profile rotations in the power bloc, the newspaper’s sources close to the Presidential Administration predict.
“The next step is the Cabinet of Ministers. There will be replacements there too,”
– the source said, however, he refused to announce which ministers he was talking about.
As a reminder, on 29 March, President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy dismissed Andriy Smirnov and Oleksiy Dniprov from their posts as deputy heads of the Presidential Office. The next day, on 30 March, First Assistant to the President Serhiy Shefir, advisers Mykhailo Radutskiy, Serhiy Trofimov and Oleh Ustenko, as well as freelance commissioners for volunteer activities Natalia Pushkariova and for the rights of defenders Alyona Verbytska lost their positions.
