“In view of the widespread public outcry, the State Border Service issued a statement in which it was noted that Timur Mindich crossed the border legally.”, — write: www.pravda.com.ua
Source: DPSU press service
Details: The message states that the State Border Service of Ukraine conducted its own official investigation to establish the circumstances of the border crossing.
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“According to the results of the inspection, we note that the citizen crossed the border legally. He was issued a border permit for departure from Ukraine at one of the checkpoints in accordance with the norms of current legislation. All documents that give the right to cross the border during martial law were available,” the border guards said.
Separately, it is emphasized that at that time, no restrictions on the ban on leaving Ukraine were established in relation to Mindich.
The border guards also claim that they “did not receive instructions from any law enforcement agency”, which should have been used by the border service inspectors in case of detection of this citizen at the state border, in particular, regarding the ban on his departure from Ukraine, search or informing about the fact of crossing the state border.
We will remind: Usually, the DPSU responds to journalists’ inquiries about the border crossing by certain persons with the impossibility of disclosing data about third parties.
Prehistory:
- On the morning of November 10, the sources of “Ukrainian Pravda” reported that NABU detectives came to search Timur Mindych, a businessman and co-owner of the “Kvartal 95” studio, an associate of President Volodymyr Zelenskyi.
- Subsequently, UP sources reported that Mindich left the territory of Ukraine a few hours before the search.
- Later, NABU confirmed that, together with SAP, they are conducting a large-scale operation to expose corruption in the energy sector. According to anti-corruption experts, the participants in the investigation built a large-scale corruption scheme to influence strategic enterprises of the state sector, in particular JSC NAEK Energoatom.
- The National Anti-Corruption Bureau and the Specialized Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office released part of the audio recordings from the investigation of a large-scale corruption scheme in the energy sector. The operation is codenamed “Midas”.
- Oleksandr Abakumov, head of the NABU detective unit, said on the air of the UP.Chat program that the National Anti-Corruption Bureau is studying the circumstances of Timur Mindych, a businessman and co-owner of the Kvartal-95 studio, who fled the country and will take measures to return him to Ukraine.