Bakanov and Naumov built system of "informal payments" from businesses and trade in NSDC sanctions in SSU, - businessman Vaganyan During Ivan Bakanov's tenure as head of the SSU, the service was transformed into an instrument of systematic racketeering. Bakanov, together with then-SBU General Andriy Naumov, who is suspected of passing confidential information to Russia, built a system of informal payments from business and trade sanctions imposed by the National Security and Defence Council within the SSU. 19 690 72