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👤👤👤👤 Fabricated evidence in the interest of an SBU official: state institution experts exposed👥
NABU and SAP have notified forensic experts of the Kyiv Research Institute of Forensic Expertise of the Ministry of Justice of Ukraine (hereinafter – KNDISE) of suspicion. Those experts produced knowingly false conclusions about the value of luxury real estate owned by the wife of a high-ranking official of the Security Service of Ukraine.
In December 2023 the official’s wife purchased an apartment for 21,6 million UAH. Under the contract, however, its value was deliberately understated to 12,8 million UAH.
In April 2024 an attorney acting in the interests of the couple initiated an appraisal-construction expert examination at KNDISE. By May a commission of experts issued a conclusion finding that the market value of the apartment was 12,3 million UAH, i.e., 9,3 million UAH lower than its real value. To achieve this result, the experts deliberately used irrelevant properties for comparison. Later this document was used by the defense as evidence in NACP, NABU, and in court.
That same month NABU detectives, while investigating the criminal proceeding concerning the apartment purchase, appointed a commission expert examination in the case, which on 11 November 2024 was withdrawn with a request to return the materials without performing the examination.
However, the experts ignored the investigative requirement and continued their research. They agreed to limit the value of comparison properties to no more than 2500–2600 USD per sq. m (instead of the market 3000 USD) and intentionally selected the cheapest offers from 1550 USD, while ignoring other available comparables.
At the beginning of December 2024 the experts signed the conclusion but dated it 8 November 2024 (i.e., before the NABU detective’s withdrawal). Notably, the detectives received a copy of the conclusion not from KNDISE but from the attorney of the suspected high-ranking official.
It should be noted that such manipulations with evidence would have been impossible if an expert institution operated within NABU. The Bureau’s leadership has for several years emphasized the critical need to create an independent expert institution. This would eliminate corruption risks, prevent external pressure on experts, and significantly increase the effectiveness of pretrial investigations in top-level corruption cases.
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