“To make people smile at SBU employees” - Director of 95 Quarter Studio appointed as Head of SBU
So, Ivan Bakanov, who has been the director of the 95 Quarter studio for the past five-plus years, has been appointed the head of the Security Service of Ukraine. During the election, he headed the headquarters of Zelensky. In May 2019, he was appointed the first deputy head of the SBU.
It is known that Bakanov is a fellow countryman and childhood friend of the current president of Ukraine, they studied at the same school, then at the Krivoy Rog Economic Institute. Bakanov’s father was an institute teacher of Vladimir Zelensky.
Ivan Bakanov graduated from the Academy of Labor, Social Relations and Tourism, as well as the mentioned economic university in Krivoy Rog. Has a specialty "advocacy and prosecution."
Bakanov himself, after the appointment, said that the first thing he was going to reform was the management of "K" in the SBU. We are talking about the Office for Combating Corruption and Economic Crimes. According to Bakanov, this department will not be abolished, but it will be "refocused on modern challenges in order to more effectively confront them."
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Recall that on the eve of the desire to build the work of the headed department according to NATO standards, the new Minister of Defense of Ukraine also announced.
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