The Verkhovna Rada registered the draft law on limitation of the functions of the State Security Service of Ukraine, the people’s deputy and one of the authors of the legislative initiative Sergei Leshchenko informed from the rostrum of the parliament, UT reports.
“We registered the draft law on depriving the Ukrainian special service of extrinsic functions, the draft law on the institutional strengthening of SSSU’s capability so that it deals with those matters, which the Security Service should deal with in the civilized European country, ”, he stated.
The people’s deputy noted that it refers to the draft law 8057, which will not allow SSSU to do the “business racket”, extort money under the guise of fighting against terrorism financing, conduct searches in Ukrainian IT companies.