“Prosecutors of the Prosecutor General’s Office conducted a nighttime search of a NABU employee, using physical force without a court order, the bureau claims”, — write: www.radiosvoboda.org
The bureau notes that the search took place around three o’clock in the morning on November 4.
“Physical force was used against the NABU employee. The employee was not informed of any suspicion. The search took place without a court order and is probably related to the direct performance of professional duties by the employee,” the department claims.
NABU declares that the employee who was searched participates in documenting corruption cases and has always acted clearly within the limits of Ukrainian legislation. According to the information available in the bureau, on the eve of the search, this employee was under covert surveillance.
The circumstances of the event and the persons involved in it are being established.
The Prosecutor General’s Office or other law enforcement agencies have not yet commented on the NABU report.
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.
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.