MP Volodymyr Pylypenko from the faction of the Bloc of Yulia Tymoshenko has urged the Main Control and Auditing Chamber to check lawfulness of allocation of bonuses to the leadership of the Security Service of Ukraine.
Ukrainian News learned this from his deputy inquiry to Mykola Syvulskyi, the chairman of the Main Control and Auditing Chamber, the wording of which was made available to the agency.
According to the deputy inquiry, the MP has received information from media that Valentyn Nalyvaichenko, the acting head of the Security Service of Ukraine, and his two deputies received bonuses of UAH 1 million for economizing budget funds on maintenance of the Security Service.
"In other words they boost the budget of the SBU first and Mr. Nalyvaichenko pays bonuses to himself and his deputies for alleged economizing funds later," Pylypenko said.
In his opinion, if the funds were really economized, they should have been used for social welfare of officers of the SBU and for technical development of the secret service instead of the significant bonuses to the leadership of the Security Service.
He said the allocation of bonuses violates a number of resolutions of the Cabinet of Ministers and presidential decrees regulating the issues of the budget funds.
Pylypenko asks the head of the Main Control and Auditing Chamber check grounds for the allocation of the bonuses [if there have been any bonuses] and the validity of the size of the bonuses in the conditions of deficit of the budget funds and optimization of budges spending.
As Ukrainian News earlier reported, the Verkhovna Rada on September 2 refused to appoint Nalyvaichenko head of the Security Service of Ukraine.
Nalyvaichenko has been acting head of the Security Service of Ukraine since December 2006.
On October 24, President Viktor Yuschenko instructed the Cabinet of Ministers to cut budget outlays for maintenance of the state machine by at least 20%.
