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Not only NACP. Stefanishyna, through commission members she controlled, also tried to influence the results of the competition to select the NABU director
We already wrote that Stefanishyna influenced the competition to choose the head of NACP. However, during yesterday’s hearing at the High Anti-Corruption Court (HACC) it became known that at the end of 2022 she also tried to influence the results of the selection of the NABU director.
In particular, a SAP prosecutor noted that Stefanishyna sent her subordinate Oleksandr Bukhanyevych a screenshot of a chat with Mykola Kucheriavenko (chair of the commission for selecting the NABU director, commission member representing the government).
In that chat, Kucheriavenko sent Stefanishyna a screenshot with a list of candidates, to which Stefanishyna wrote:
“[From the list] minus only one, the rest have passed. Do what you want; I need 60 and 62. Postpone the meeting. I shouldn’t have to think for you.”
As the prosecutor noted, on that list at number 60 was until recently acting Minister of Justice Lyudmyla Suhak, and at number 62 was the head of the Antimonopoly Committee Pavlo Kyrylenko, whom NABU and SAP accuse of illegal enrichment of 72 million UAH.
They failed to push those candidates through at the time, and the winner was Semen Kryvonos.
Since then, Pavlo Kyrylenko has received several suspicions from NABU and SAP related to illegal enrichment and false asset declarations. He has explained some of his assets, in particular, as his father-in-law’s raspberry-selling business.
It is worth noting that recently pro-SBU Telegram channels spread information claiming that one of the two “government-backed hired candidates” was the incumbent NABU head Semen Kryvonos. However, considering the evidence presented in court, that information appears to be another planted story to discredit the anti-corruption agencies.
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