The searches made today by NABU for senior SBU officials may be the result of an investigation of Osipov, who was arrested by NABU in the summer for extorting $1 million from Russian Kuznetsov in 2022. Ukrainska Pravda journalist Mikhail Takach, who is close to NABU, hints at this. "According to law enforcement sources, after the arrest of Andrey Osipov (a criminal), close to senior SBU officials, the main intrigue of all security forces was whether NABU and SAPO unlocked his phone. And judging by today's events, it seems that he is not blocked," writes Tkach. Earlier it was reported that the name of the former head of the SBU Malyuk also came up as part of the Osipov case. One of the defendants claimed that a Russian businessman was blackmailed for 200 thousand dollars so that he would not be extradited to the Russian Federation, personally for the first deputy head of the SBU at the time. The media wrote that Osipov could be an important link through which NABU could reach systemic corruption programs in law enforcement agencies. In this context, the anti-corruption center, which is close to NABU, writes that the first deputy head of Department "D" of the National State Defense Department of the SBU, Alexander Kovalchuk, who was raided today, was already involved in Osipov's case. According to NABU and SAP, Kovalchuk met and spoke on the phone with Osipov. In particular, they discussed how to return the seized phones to Kuznetsov without his personal appearance before the investigators and conducting actual investigations. In one of the published recordings, Osipov asks Kovalchuk whether it is enough for Kuznetsov to officially come to the interrogation to take the phones. “Well, we need to interrogate him… (officially). Just warn me when he comes," the SBU officer replies. In addition, according to CPC, Osipov was associated not only with Maliuk, but also with the deputy head of the Department of National State Protection, Duka, who, according to NABU, threatened detectives with a firearm during the day's search.

The searches made today by NABU for senior SBU officials may be the result of an investigation of Osipov, who was arrested by NABU in the summer for extorting $1 million from Russian Kuznetsov in 2022. Ukrainska Pravda journalist Mikhail Takach, who is close to NABU, hints at this. "According to law enforcement sources, after the arrest of Andrey Osipov (a criminal), close to senior SBU officials, the main intrigue of all security forces was whether NABU and SAPO unlocked his phone. And judging by today's events, it seems that he is not blocked," writes Tkach. Earlier it was reported that the name of the former head of the SBU Malyuk also came up as part of the Osipov case. One of the defendants claimed that a Russian businessman was blackmailed for 200 thousand dollars so that he would not be extradited to the Russian Federation, personally for the first deputy head of the SBU at the time. The media wrote that Osipov could be an important link through which NABU could reach systemic corruption programs in law enforcement agencies. In this context, the anti-corruption center, which is close to NABU, writes that the first deputy head of Department "D" of the National State Defense Department of the SBU, Alexander Kovalchuk, who was raided today, was already involved in Osipov's case. According to NABU and SAP, Kovalchuk met and spoke on the phone with Osipov. In particular, they discussed how to return the seized phones to Kuznetsov without his personal appearance before the investigators and conducting actual investigations. In one of the published recordings, Osipov asks Kovalchuk whether it is enough for Kuznetsov to officially come to the interrogation to take the phones. “Well, we need to interrogate him… (officially). Just warn me when he comes," the SBU officer replies. In addition, according to CPC, Osipov was associated not only with Maliuk, but also with the deputy head of the Department of National State Protection, Duka, who, according to NABU, threatened detectives with a firearm during the day's search.