Editing Security Service of Ukraine (section)

===2010–2014===
The former Security Service of Ukraine Head [[Valeriy Khoroshkovsky]] was involved in several controversies during his tenure. The rector of the Ukrainian Catholic University in Lviv [[Borys Gudziak]] heavily criticized a visit from the SBU, forcing Khoroshkovskiy to apologize. Later the head of the Kyiv Bureau of the [[Konrad Adenauer Foundation]], [[Nico Lange]], was detained for a short while and released only after several high-ranking officials from the ''[[German Chancellery]]'' vouched for him. The Security Service described the incident as a misunderstanding.<ref>Cicero. Berlin. August 2019 p. 38 (in German)</ref>  Khoroshkovskiy, as the Chairman of the SBU, eliminated the main competition of Ukrainian TV-giant [[Inter (TV channel)|Inter]],{{citation needed|date=November 2014}} officially owned by his wife Olena Khoroshkovskiy, in the face of [[TVI (channel)|TVi]] and [[5 Kanal (Ukraine)|Channel 5]]. In July 2010, Konrad Schuller of the ''[[Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung]]'' wrote that Khoroshkovskiy had connections with [[RosUkrEnergo]].<ref name=Unian100720/><ref name=FAZ100719/><ref name=FAZ100714/> The most important source of Khoroshkovskiy's{{clarify|date=December 2014}} came from RosUkrEnergo.{{citation needed|date=November 2014}} The President's spokesperson, [[Hanna Herman]], in an interview with this newspaper, did not dispute that [[Dmytro Firtash]] was one of the sponsors of the Presidential [[Party of Regions]], with the help of which Khoroshkovskiy was appointed to the position of the State Security chairman. Khoroshkovskiy denied any connections to RosUkrEnergo. However it is a fact{{citation needed|date=November 2014}} that Firtash possesses certain privileges in Inter. Schuller also stated that the SBU acts in direct association with RosUkrEnergo, arresting their main opponents (see [[RosUkrEnergo#History|RosUkrEnergo]]) to recover their invested money in the recent{{which|date=November 2014}} presidential campaign. Khoroshkovskiy having declined to give an interview to ''[[Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung]]'', Schuller posted a quote from one of his other interviews:

{{cquote|All my experience until now indicates that I am a patriot. ... I see through economic intrigues, crime, know methods of money laundering, banks that illegally exchange currency. ... My knowledge is much wider than most of those who work here.}}

When [[Ministry of Finance (Ukraine)|Minister of Finance]] Fedir Yaroshenko resigned on January 18, 2012, Khoroshkovsky replaced him in the post on the same day.<ref name=KP120119-Khor /> Khoroshkovsky is also the owner of [[U.A. Inter Media Group]] which owns major shares in various [[Television in Ukraine|Ukrainian TV channels]] including [[Inter TV]].<ref name=KP100612 /> 238 members of the [[Verkhovna Rada]] voted for Khoroshkovsky, however the head of the parliamentary committee for the National Security and Defense [[Anatoliy Hrytsenko]] stated that the committee accepted the decision to recommend Verkhovna Rada to deny the candidature of Khoroshkovskiy on the post of the chairman of Security Service of Ukraine.<ref name=Unian100311 />

Khoroshkovskiy said the SBU's main duty was to protect the president rather than the interests of Ukraine. On July 26, 2010, it arrested an internet blogger, producing a warrant for his arrest the next day. SBU accused the blogger of threatening the [[President of Ukraine]], citing his comment "May thunder strike Yanukovych!"; he was released after a short discussion.<ref name=Glav100802 /> However, SBU showed a rather passive reaction to the statements of the Russian state official who claimed that [[Crimea]] and [[Sevastopol]] belong to the [[Russian Federation]].<ref name=GR100722 /> [[Protest group]] [[FEMEN]] said that after [[2010 Ukrainian presidential election|the early 2010 election]] of President [[Viktor Yanukovych]] the SBU attempted to intimidate the FEMEN activists.<ref name=FEMENHell />

[[File:SBU_raid.jpg|left|thumb|A SBU raid against organized crime in [[Sumy Oblast]]]]

On May 22, 2012, Volodymyr Rokytskyi, Deputy Head of the SBU, was photographed in public wearing a $32,000 luxury wristwatch despite the fact that its price amounts to his yearly official income. The instance happened at a joint Ukrainian-American event dedicated to fighting the drug trade.<ref name=UP120523 />

The SBU uncovered seven spies and 16 special service agents in 2009.<ref name=IFU091230 /> A large number of arrests and searches occurred in 2011.<ref name=EP120111 />