The SBU security body said it had arrested one official at the National Anti-corruption Bureau of Ukraine as a suspected Russian spy and another over suspected business ties to Russia. Other NABU officials had ties to a fugitive Ukrainian politician’s banned party, the SBU said.
Gee thanks for repeating the SBU handouts. Nevertheless the article continues:
But NABU, which has embarrassed senior government officials with corruption allegations, said the crackdown went beyond state security issues to cover unrelated allegations such as years-old traffic accidents. Anti-corruption watchdog Transparency International said the searches showed that the authorities were exerting “massive pressure” on Ukraine’s corruption fighters. Ambassadors of G7 nations in Kyiv issued a statement saying they had a “shared commitment” to uphold transparency and independent institutions. But the ambassadors said they had met NABU officials and had “serious concerns and intend to discuss these developments with government leaders”.
for more, read the article…
Right. I did read the article.
I just wanted to make clear that that arrested 2 agents and their stated reasons for doing so.
Are you implying that the SBU was lying about the number of agents arrested?
What you’ve quoted does not reject what the SBU stated. The headline seems to me to imply corruption in the SBU and instigate distrust. It is not clear.
It’s true the headline is unclear. I don’t think the headline implies the SBU being corrupt though. I find it weird though that you would as an explanation pick the formal statements of the SBU which stands accused of overreach in the article. It’s becoming a major problem that often newspapers would just repeat statements by the security services without any further investigation into their claims, and here, where there’s at least a little more info on it, even G7 representatives complaining, you chose to state the official line.
I could not find a section in the article where they rejected that information.
I didn’t want to imply that, I would just generally distrust any initial statements by security forces and rather report on what the critics of those state.
Ah ok.
