The Ukrainian Security Service (SBU) has said they did not have Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung correspondent Konrad Schuller shadowed.
"The Security Service of Ukraine reiterates that it did not shadow the correspondent of Frankfurter Allgemeine," the SBU said in a statement issued on Monday.
The SBU said that in an interview with Schuller SBU Chief Valeriy Khoroshkovsky told that in 2009 (under the previous government) they received information regarding the possible illegal activities of a foreign person in the territory of Ukraine, who was not accredited as a journalist.
In line with the law, the Security Service made appropriate checks.
"Konrad Schuller was told this when he asked to comment on the facts that the SBU officers contacted citizens of Ukraine," the SBU said.
Previously, some media reported that SBU Chief Khoroshkovsky recognized that German journalist Schuller was put under surveillance.
The Ukrayinska Pravda said that Schuller claimed that SBU had questioned many people he had contacted in Ukraine when he was preparing reports during the presidential campaign.
He also said that those meetings took place in late April 2010 and that he referred an official letter to SBU Chairman Khoroshkovsky demanding to be informed about the goal and reasons for such meetings.
