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The current authorities are using the corruption schemes as former officials, former Chief of the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) Valentyn Nalyvaichenko has said.

“A cynical and shameless corruption is happening in the parliament. I have a completely public question, including to Head of the Petro Poroshenko Bloc Yuriy Lutsenko – how did ‘an enforcer’ appear in his faction,” Nalyvaichenko said in an exclusive interview with Interfax-Ukraine on July 2.

Nalyvaichenko explained that an enforcer is a person who intimidates MPs and pressures them to vote in a certain manner in some questions.

“This enforcer has a surname. I think it’s not only dangerous, it’s cynical. The first one to hear it from me was the President of Ukraine. Just like that – eye to eye. It was one of my latest reports to the President. And I asked him to invite the MPs that heard and who listened to the threats, and they would name that person. And it’s not Yuriy Lutsenko,” he said

Nalyvaichenko said that during the investigation in the actions of BRSM-Nafta it was discovered that a few oil depots were working in three regions without a license or adhering to security and ecology regulations without paying taxes.

“Until February 2014, whose schemes were those? [Viktor] Yanukovych’s, [Eduard] Stavytsky’s and all other figures’ currently hiding all over the world. Now these schemes with the same embezzling [are sending money to] the right offshore accounts of the current authorities… That’s why there’s no economy, or jobs. That’s why this corruption is now in these authorities. It’s dangerous that the authorities took up the previous corruption schemes, made business, brought merchants from a financial-industrial group into the power. They have come. These are their off shore accounts, these are now their off shore accounts, not Stavystky’s. And that’s not everything yet,” he noted.

He also said that he still intends to post tcurrent materials on violations in the defense-industrial complex.

“The most dangerous thing is what we’re currently doing and in the nearest future we will post and persecute in court, and possibly, via law enforcement agencies – it’s the defense complex… It’s really dangerous, as it [corruption] is present among leaders of such important facilities as National and Security Defense Council staff and other agencies responsible for the production and ensuring country’s defense capabilities,” Nalyvaichenko said.