Position: ex-head of the Cyber Security Department of the Security Service of Ukraine.
Sphere of corruption activity: law enforcement.
Region of corruption activity: the city of Kyiv.
Qualifications: None at this time.
Status: at large.
Wealth: there are no declarations of Ilya Vityuk in open sources.
Scandals: in April 2024, Slidstva.Info investigative journalists found an apartment purchased in December 2023 for more than 20 million hryvnias at the market price from the wife of the head of the cyber security department of the SBU Ilya Vityuk. Although the official's declaration states that 12.8 million hryvnias were paid for the apartment (at the moment, the declaration is not available on the NAZK website).
On real estate sites, apartments without renovation in this residential complex cost approximately $3,000 per square meter. This is almost three times more than the average price in the capital. It is not difficult to calculate that Julia Vityuk had to pay 585 thousand dollars for her apartment without repairs. Or 21.5 million hryvnias at the exchange rate at the time of purchase
However, Vityuk's declaration states that this apartment was purchased for 12 million 800 thousand hryvnias. That is, the price indicated in the declaration is almost half the market price. But Ilya Vityuk's salary was 1.8 million per year, and he would not have been able to buy even this apartment.
Instead, his wife is engaged in business. Shortly after Vytiuk assumed his current position, Yuliya Vytiuk opened an FOP, through which she received 9.4 million hryvnias in profit in 2022 and 13.4 million hryvnias in 2023.
Last year, as can be seen from the declaration, the couple had a child. However, this did not affect his wife's earnings. The spy's wife refused to talk to the "Slidstva.Info" journalist about the activities of her FOP and the expensive apartment.
Yuliya Vityuk provides legal services, for which she receives more than 1 million hryvnias per month. However, the journalists could not find any data - neither the address nor contact data of the enterprise.
In addition, journalists reported that in 2014, Ilya Vityuk filmed the shooting of protesters on the Maidan by the Berkut special unit.
It is noted that the investigation could not establish his identity for a long time, so Vityuk was interrogated only in 2019, confirmed the ex-head of the Department of Investigation of Crimes Committed During the Maidan, Serhii Horbatyuk.
Later, Vityuk was suspended from his duties pending the investigation of the circumstances disclosed by Slidstvo-info journalists. In addition, the head of the SBU transferred Ilya Vityuk to serve in a combat unit. In May, President Volodymyr Zelenskyi signed a decree on the dismissal of Ilya Vityuk from the position of head of the SBU Cyber Security Department.
In September 2024, the National Agency for the Prevention of Corruption (NACP) completed monitoring the lifestyle of the former head of the Cyber Security Department of the SBU, Ilya Vityuk. The results of the inspection showed that there were no significant discrepancies between his declared income and the real standard of living.
Currently, regarding the property, the owners of which are Vityuk I.A. and members of his family, the National Agency did not establish the difference between their value and legal incomes, which are five hundred or more times the amount of the subsistence minimum, which could indicate the unreasonableness of the acquisition of assets
Subsequently, NABU, in response to the request of hromadske journalists, reported that in May 2024 the High Anti-Corruption Court seized the apartment belonging to Ilya Vityuk's wife.
NABU noted that a pre-trial investigation is underway, which is examining the circumstances of the purchase of this apartment by the Vityuk family on suspicion of laundering property obtained illegally.
The prosecutor's request to seize the apartment is based on the existence of sufficient grounds and suspicions that this property may be subject to special confiscation in accordance with the provisions of the Criminal Code of Ukraine
The bureau also added that they had not received any requests from the NAKC regarding the seizure of this property. The journalists also appealed to the NAKC with a request to carry out an examination of the value of the Vityuks' apartment as part of lifestyle monitoring, but received a refusal to answer.
Related persons: the ex-official's wife - Yulia Vityuk, to whom, according to the investigation, half of the assets were declared.
Persons who should respond: after the publication of the investigation, it became known that the National Anti-Corruption Bureau is investigating the purchase of luxury real estate by members of the family of the head of the cyber security department of the SBU, Ilya Vityuk. However, to date, Vytyuk has still not received suspicion.
Sources:
In 2014, SBU General Vityuk filmed the Maidan from the side of "Berkut" - Investigation. Info
Zelensky fired the head of the cyber security department of the SBU, Vityuk