The Ukrainian government on November 20 dismissed the chief of the country's State Service of Special Communications and Information Protection, Yuriy Shchyhol, and informed him that he was a suspect in an investigation into the embezzlement of 62 million hryvnyas ($1.72 million). Ukraine's Specialized Anti-Corruption Prosecutor's Office and the National Anti-Corruption Bureau (NABU) said in a statement that Shchyhol was one of six suspects in the investigation of the purchase of information systems intended for the creation of a network of protected data registers in 2021. To read the original story by RFE/RL's Ukrainian Service, click here.
