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A “torpedo” is roaming the parliament…
Well, as I’ve reported before, it seems members of parliament and government officials should be more careful. After all, a NABU “torpedo” is roaming the Ukrainian parliament — Member of Parliament from the For the Future group, Serhiy Labaziuk.
This concerns possible covert cooperation between Labaziuk and anti-corruption agencies. According to sources, the MP agreed to help document corrupt actions of other officials in exchange for lenient treatment of his own problems. In particular, the recent events surrounding Labaziuk and his closest circle force us to return to this situation.
So, on 26 the Solomianskyi District Court of Kyiv found Labaziuk’s personal driver, Bohdan Shudra, guilty; Shudra refused to testify in the High Anti-Corruption Court (HACC) in the case about an attempted bribe of the leadership of the Ministry of Recovery and Reconstruction. (I remind you that Labaziuk himself is accused of attempting to hand over 150 thousand dollars in bribes to help obtain contracts for infrastructure reconstruction).
And for refusing to testify his driver received a fine — as much as 3400 hryvnias. Of course, the punishment is provided by law. But personally I wonder whether such leniency might be another reason to check the information about arrangements around Labaziuk. The fine itself proves nothing, yet it raises no fewer questions…
An even more interesting story is the high-profile car accident involving Labaziuk, in which the Range Rover was driven by that same Bohdan Shudra.
Earlier I already analyzed the verdict in detail. The BMW driver fully admitted his guilt, after which the court, applying the procedure provided by the Criminal Procedure Code, decided not to examine other evidence regarding the undisputed circumstances of the accident.
At the same time, the verdict practically contains no analysis of the Range Rover’s speed, the traffic light signals, or the Range Rover driver’s ability to avoid the collision. Although expert examinations were conducted in the case.
And here a rather interesting question arises: why did NABU and the SAP (Specialized Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office), for whom Shudra is an important witness in the Labaziuk case, not show interest in the circumstances of this crash? At least nothing about such interest is publicly known.
After all, if the investigation had established possible criminal liability of Shudra for the accident, that could theoretically have changed his procedural status and created additional preconditions for collaboration with investigators in Labaziuk’s case.
But instead we have a different picture: the BMW driver was convicted for the accident, while Labaziuk’s personal driver, for refusing to testify in the anti-corruption case, received a fine of 3400 hryvnias.
And here again the information about possible covert cooperation of Labaziuk himself with anti-corruption agencies comes to mind…
So MPs and officials should still be cautious when dealing with Labaziuk…
Because if his role as NABU’s “torpedo” eventually comes to light, for some of his parliamentary colleagues such an acquaintance could end in far more than a friendly conversation…
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