CEO Club Ukraine, a club of Ukrainian business leaders, said on May 6 that its premises were searched by the Bureau of Economic Security (BEB) in April and linked it to a supposed smear campaign against the club. The business association has previously called for reforms of the bureau to, in their own words, prevent it from becoming “an instrument of bribery and political pressure.” “On Friday, April 26… the premises of the CEO Club business association, which our organization rents in the business center at 23 Butyshiv Lane (in Kyiv), were visited by BEB officials with a search permit,” sai…