Igor Klymenko told about the progress of the investigation in the case against the head of the National Police Dmitry Tyshlek
In an interview with “Ukrainian News”, the Minister of Internal Affairs of Ukraine Igor Klymenko stressed that currently all authorized persons are studying the issues that were raised in the Bihus.Info journalistic investigation regarding the deputy head of the National Police Dmytro Tyshlek.
“In such situations, there is a certain algorithm of response. We have completely endured it. Appointed an official investigation, determined the personal composition of the commission, which will carry out the appropriate verification activities. Today (October 30, — ed) the commission has already held its first meeting. Tyshlek was suspended from the performance of official duties,” said the Head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine Igor Klymenko.
The Minister of Internal Affairs noted that Dmitry Tyshlek himself submitted an application to the State Bureau of Investigation, in which he asked to thoroughly understand what was stated in the journalistic investigation.
Answering the journalist's question about checking the relatives of Dmitry Tyshlek for the presence of passports of other countries, Igor Klymenko said that during the investigation, authorized persons will check this information:
“There is criminal proceedings in the SBI, there is our official investigation. Already in the framework of official investigations and proceedings, the pre-trial investigation body will provide requests to other services that are authorized to check and have access to such information. When this passport was received, if received, by whom it was issued, if issued. It is necessary to interview in the framework of criminal proceedings all those who appear in it. Therefore, this is a big job, but we will give this opportunity to the SBI investigators, if necessary and the SBU, to establish the truth.”
Igor Klymenko said that when a special inspection takes place, there are two directions — the internal Ministry of Internal Affairs and inspections that are organized by other special services. As for the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the police in this case, the next of kin are checked for criminal records, the presence of real estate, declarations. The materials also contain autobiographical data on the closest relatives, including wives, husbands and children.
In particular, the units of the Migration Service provide information on the presence of Ukrainian citizenship, they confirm this citizenship of Ukraine, the border service for the internal security unit provides information on crossing the border and on which passport, on which car or plane.
The head of the department added that the Ministry of Internal Affairs, as a rule, does not have information about the availability of a passport of a particular state, since foreign countries do not disclose sensitive personal data.
“Regarding the availability of a passport of a particular state, we, as a rule, do not have such information. A request should be sent to this country, and countries do not provide such information because it is sensitive personal data. If you contact the United States with a question whether this or that person has citizenship, they are unlikely to answer you. And here we are talking about Russia, with which we have no contact at all. And this must be clearly understood,” Ihor Klymenko stressed.
Department of Communications of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine
