“The OGP confirmed the searches of the NABU employee, who is suspected of installing technical means to monitor the OGP building. Criminal proceedings have been initiated”, — write: www.radiosvoboda.org
According to the press service of the department, on November 3 at 06:10 an unknown man installed special technical devices on the canopy above the entrance to a residential building opposite the OGP building, and at 14:53 another person took these devices away.
The OGP claims that surveillance cameras were installed in “special locations in order to record the entrances and exits of all employees.”
“The nature of the deployment of surveillance equipment actually ensured the total removal of information from the building of the state body under martial law conditions. In particular, information on vehicles, license plates, movement schedule and identification of civil servants,” the message reads.
It is noted that criminal proceedings were initiated on the fact of the possible illegal use of special technical means of obtaining information, committed by a group of persons based on a prior conspiracy (Part 2 of Article 359 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine), and in the course of emergency measures, it was possible to establish the identity of one of the men.
“During the search, the man reported that he was a full-time employee of NABU and provided his official ID. He confirmed that he was taking away the previously installed technical means of monitoring the OGP building. At the same time, the employee of NABU was unable to provide clear explanations regarding the legal grounds for conducting clandestine activities, only stating that he was “carrying out the instructions of the management,” the report says.
Earlier today, NABU announced that prosecutors of the Prosecutor General’s Office, accompanied by special agents, searched an employee of the bureau around three o’clock in the morning on November 4.
The bureau said that their employee “was subjected to physical force” and the employee was not informed of any suspicion. NABU claims that these investigative actions took place without a court order and are probably related to the employee’s direct performance of professional duties.
NABU stated that the employee who was searched participates in documenting corruption cases and has always acted clearly within the limits of Ukrainian legislation.
NABU stated that on July 21, about 70 searches were carried out by employees of the SBU, the State Bureau of Investigation and the Prosecutor General’s Office against the bureau’s employees. The inspection also took place at the Specialized Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office.
In July, the SBU reported that it was investigating Russia’s alleged influence on the work of the National Anti-Corruption Bureau. Ruslan Magamedrasulov, head of one of the bureau’s interregional offices, was named among those involved.
According to the Security Service, a high-ranking NABU official and his father were informed of suspicion under the article “assistance to an aggressor state”. They are in custody. The SBU said that they suspect one of the heads of the interregional departments of NABU detectives that during the full-scale war, he and his father were engaged in organizing illegal trade with the Russian Federation.
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Meanwhile, the Anti-Corruption Center called the NABU official’s accusations of trading with an aggressor country “PR machinations of the SBU.”
In July, “Ukrainian Pravda” published an article about the searches at NABU and quoted an anonymous interlocutor in the anti-corruption authorities, who he assumed was the reason for conducting investigative actions against the detectives: “In general, we think that they simply acted as a preventive measure, because we learned that suspicion was being prepared in NABU against Timur Mindich (co-owner of “Kvartal 95″ Studio)”, – the interlocutor assumed in anticororgans in the UP material.