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AMCU Chair Kyrylenko commented on the alleged lobbying by Stefanishyna for his appointment as NABU director.
“I don’t know anything about that,” Pavlo Kyrylenko told a Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty reporter after a hearing at the High Anti-Corruption Court, where his case was considered on 6 August. Kyrylenko is accused of false asset declaration and illegal enrichment of more than 70 million hryvnias.
The information about possible influence arose during the setting of pretrial restrictions for the former vice prime minister and former Ukrainian ambassador to the United States, Olha Stefanishyna, in a similar case—regarding her alleged illegal enrichment and false asset declaration.
During the hearing, an SAP prosecutor quoted correspondence between the official and the head of the competition commission for selecting the NABU director, Mykola Kucheriavenko, dated 30 December 2022, which indicates that Stefanishyna was lobbying, among others, for the candidacy of then-head of the Donetsk Regional Military Administration Pavlo Kyrylenko for the position of the anti-corruption agency’s director.
Stefanishyna herself refused to comment, only noting: “I think the prosecutor has achieved the public objectives of this hearing by adding context that is not related to this case (about illegal enrichment and nondisclosure – ed.).”
