Until recently, Alexander Liev, who was responsible for armed contracts of the Ministry of Defense, was accused of holding a Russian passport. The official denied this and called on the Security Service to investigate the incident.
Alexander Liev announced this on February 3. He noted that he was fired from his post, but continues to transfer cases in the areas that he has been implementing in the Ministry of Defense for the past six months.
“During the night, my family received almost two hundred threatening messages. part of the night I was engaged in ensuring the protection of my family. In the morning I went and submitted an application to the SBU box with a request to check the sources used by Mikhail Tkach (investigator of Ukrainskaya Pravda – 24) Channel). Check the sources for their motive,” Liev said.
Forgiven
According to the ex-official of the Ministry of Defense, a large number of people in the department and leadership were forced to think about the wrong things for the last tens of hours. Liev noted that Sevgil Musayeva, the editor-in-chief of Ukrainska Pravda, called him.
I respect her, as well as the entire team of Ukrainska Pravda. She apologized and said it was an unfortunate mistake. Mikhail Tkach also wrote about this. Indeed, the news came out on the UP with a refutation of all the fake news of yesterday. I hope that the telegrams that were dispersed yesterday will inform their readers about the error, – said Liev.
He said that a large number of active people stood up in his defense. Liev added that he would not know what to do if the fake passport had been made better and the surname was written without errors, put the correct photo.
“Fortunately, the source was inexpensive. Perhaps this I did it on purpose. I don’t understand this and don’t understand why this happened, so I turned to the SBU,” Liev said.
Ready to talk
The ex-official said he didn't receive any calls from Mikhail Tkach, who published the news about the Russian passport. Liev assured that he was ready for any difficult interview with a journalist on the Ukrainska Pravda platform.
“I offered such an interview to Public Broadcasting. Unfortunately, for some reason they didn’t see any resonance in it. I’m ready for any interview so that society finally stops worrying that people who had no right to deal with security issues in the supply of weapons,” he added. Liev.
What is known about the situation with Liev: briefly
- Head of the Center for Countermeasures Corruption Vitaliy Shabunin said that Liev was the Minister of Resorts and Tourism in Crimea during the presidency of the criminal Yanukovych According to Shabunin, Liev supported the occupation of Crimea.
- Liyev said that he really did not speak about supporting the occupation of Crimea, but “about the need to increase the powers of the ARC and emphasized that it was part of Ukraine.”
- On February 2, an official wrote a letter of resignation from position of Acting Head of the Department of Military-Technical Policy of the Ministry of Defense.
- Ukrainskaya Pravda sources in Ukrainian intelligence told about Liev’s Russian passport.
a position he has held since the summer of 2022.
