The CPC was called the SBU searches in NABU’s expert deposits of “discrediting campaign”

Among the NABU expertants, in which the Security Service of Ukraine conducted searches, stating the investigation of abuse in Ukrzaliznytsya, is Taras Lykunov, his brother Elena Shcherban – a member of the Board of the Center for Anti -Corruption and the lawyer of the detained SBU of the NABAC. They noted that it was NABU who had a case about Artem Shila, a former adviser to the Presidential Office and the Employee of the Security Service of Ukraine, who is suspected of seizing Ukrzaliznytsia funds.

The National Anti -Corruption Bureau has previously reported the searches of the Security Service of Ukraine in the former Bureau detectives, which are now employees of Ukrzaliznytsia’s internal security. The CPC noted that these searches are part of the NABU and CPC discredit campaign.

The Center for Combating Corruption published the text of the resolution on a search in the rented apartment where Taras Lykunov lives, and stated that “the SBU lied in its official communication on searches.”

“In the official message of the SBU notes that the searches were conducted“ in criminal proceedings on abuse in the field of freight transportation at Ukrzaliznytsia. But it’s a total lies. There is no word about the search in my brother’s home. There is black and white – that the search took place in the framework of criminal proceedings on suspicion of the People’s Deputy of Khristenko. How my brother is associated with this is unclear. The investigator could not explain this on the search either, ”Olena Shcherban said.

The CPC Executive Daria Kaleniuk stated that “the purpose of Zelensky and the SBU right now is to discredit the entire anti -corruption system and revenge on specific people for Subushnik suspicion Artem Shila, who is suspected of stealing at Ukrzalnitsa and Study. Mind. ”

The President’s office has not yet been commented.

Earlier today, the National Anti -Corruption Bureau reported that the Security Service of Ukraine is conducting investigative actions in the former NABU detectives, which are now employees of Ukrzaliznytsia. “They are likely to be related to their previous activities over investigations in investigative groups that exposed organized criminal groups in state -owned enterprises and in state authorities, including the SBU,” – the message reads.

NABU stated that such actions may indicate “increased systemic pressure on the independence of anti -corruption institutions.”

The security service stated that on September 25, a number of searches sanctioned by the court in criminal proceedings on abuse in the field of freight at Ukrzaliznytsia.

“Investigative and operative measures are held exclusively with officials of JSC“ Ukrzaliznytsia ”and private entrepreneurs, who are the defendants of the relevant criminal proceedings. The searches of Ukrzaliznytsia officials are not related to the “pressure on the independence of anti -corruption institutions”, as their representatives stated today, “the SBU said.

NABU is not the first time that trying to influence the independence of the bureau through the investigation it is leading.

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