Journalist Volodymyr Boyko says SBU has opened a criminal case against him

According to the journalist, a search of his home is being prepared.

Journalist Volodymyr Boyko said that the SBU has opened a criminal case against him and is seizing documents from state bodies that mention his surname. The journalist also claims that the security service has already obtained a court warrant to search his home and is waiting for him to return to Ukraine from abroad.

According to Boyko, the criminal case may be linked to his publications about the terrorist attack near the Palace of Sports in Kharkiv in February 2015 and the terrorist attack under the walls of the Verkhovna Rada on August 31, 2015. The journalist has argued that the Security Service of Ukraine may be behind these events.

Volodymyr Boyko
journalist

Friends, you won't believe it, but the Security Service of Ukraine has started a criminal case against yours truly, is seizing documents mentioning my surname from all state institutions, and has obtained a court warrant to search my home as soon as I return from abroad. And all this is because of my publications about how SBU agents carried out a terrorist attack in Kharkiv in February 2015 and threw a grenade under the Verkhovna Rada in August 2015.
When Zelensky appointed Bakanov head of the SBU, there was initially hope that after Vasya-***** [the fool] at the helm of the Agency, if not a specialist, then at least a sensible person would appear. Therefore, at my request, in early June 2019, a then people's deputy approached Bakanov, handed over a “memo” prepared by me and proposed creating a group within the SBU's Internal Security Department to check information about grave crimes committed by the great-grandchildren of Dzerzhinsky during the times of Nalyvaichenko and Vasya-***** [the fool]. And, above all, the journalist Volodymyr Boyko should be questioned, as he can provide detailed information about how former head of the Department for the Protection of National Statehood Dublyk prepared the provocation under the Verkhovna Rada.

According to the journalist, in June 2019 he was in contact with high-ranking SBU officials and proposed putting the security service in order after the departure of SBU head Vasyl Hrytsak from his post.

Volodymyr Boyko
journalist

In addition, in June 2019 there were also direct contacts between me and senior SBU officials, during which I proposed putting basic order into the legacy of Vasya-******* [the fool] and at least stopping the embezzlement of money by the chief of staff of the Anti-Terrorist Centre under the SBU. But instead, Bakanov gave an order to “shut up this Boyko”.

The journalist last wrote about the terrorist attack near the Kharkiv Palace of Sports on December 27, 2019. At that time, the journalist claimed that the attack was allegedly carried out by agents of the department for the protection of national statehood of the Kharkiv Oblast SBU directorate.

In his Telegram channel, the journalist reported that he is returning to Ukraine on January 6.

Who is Volodymyr Boyko?

Volodymyr Boyko is a Ukrainian journalist and author of the Telegram channel “Notes of a Pasquinader”, in which he actively covers the work of law enforcement agencies in Ukraine. His publications concern the SBU, NABU and the Prosecutor General's Office. The journalist criticizes the leadership of the security agencies and publishes internal documents and source data, many of which are later confirmed. 

In June 2002 he was detained in Donetsk at the editorial office of the newspaper “Salon Dona i Bassa”. Ten days later the journalist was released after a public reaction from President Leonid Kuchma. After his release, Volodymyr Boyko published “Prison Notes”, in which he was the first to reveal the criminal conviction of former president Viktor Yanukovych: Boyko allegedly learned this information from a cellmate while in detention.