“NABU emphasizes that the bureau employee “acted in strict accordance with the requirements of the law””, — write: www.radiosvoboda.org
NABU emphasizes that the bureau employee “acted in strict accordance with the requirements of the law.”
“We emphasize the inadmissibility of interference in the NABU investigation by other bodies,” the bureau added.
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 noted that the employee who was searched participates in documenting corruption cases and has always acted clearly within the limits of Ukrainian legislation.
After that, the Prosecutor General’s Office explained the search of the NABU employee by the fact that he was carrying out “covert surveillance measures” at the OGP building. According to the OGP, 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).
The Prosecutor General’s Office reported that, considering the military situation and the specifics of the object’s work, they decided to search the residence of a man who, according to the OGP, was involved in the installation and removal of special technical means.
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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.