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Pressure on journalists from Prosecutor General Zelensky’s team continues. A figure in the NABU case and one of the authors of the controversial law to dismantle NABU and SAP, Dmytro Borzykh, has filed a lawsuit against the ZN.ua editorial office and journalist Inna Vedernikova.
The case will be heard by the Pechersky Court.
The Center for Public Integrity (CPI) views this lawsuit solely as an attempt to pressure journalists, which, unfortunately, has become part of Zelensky’s team’s overall strategy.
Notably, Inna Vedernikova’s article about the NABU and SAP case concerning Borzykh was published back in 22 April 2025. However, the lawsuit and the case review have only appeared now.
According to the CPI, the following information is important for understanding the case:
🔹 Who is Dmytro Borzykh?
Known as a former prosecutor. In particular, he served as Deputy Prosecutor of the city of Kyiv, and also held senior positions in the Office of the Prosecutor General of Ukraine (OPG) during the leadership of Viktor Shokin and Yuriy Lutsenko.
In 2014–2019 years Borzykh worked together with Ruslan Kravchenko (the current Prosecutor General) in the military prosecutor’s office under the leadership of the controversial Anatoliy Matios.
He currently officially works as an attorney. According to CPI sources and several media outlets, in 2025 Borzykh effectively advised the authorities in drafting the controversial bill No. 12414 to dismantle NABU and SAP. He was brought into the process by Prosecutor General Ruslan Kravchenko.
🔹 What do NABU and SAP accuse Borzykh of?
Borzykh is one of the key suspects in the so-called “lawyers-hackers” case. According to investigators, he formed a criminal group that had unlawful access to closed court data.
This included data about court-approved searches in corruption cases. Thus, Borzykh’s group could warn subjects about searches in advance.
The matter concerns materials of 100+ criminal cases, including about 30 high-profile NABU proceedings into top-level corruption.
🔹 What is Borzykh demanding in the Pechersky Court from ZN.ua and Vedernikova?
In the lawsuit filed with the Pechersky Court, Borzykh demands:
🟡 To declare the information in Vedernikova’s article “The Lawyers-Hackers Case. How NABU Found the Parasites” and other materials of the outlet to be unreliable.
🟡 To prohibit/challenge the publication of his name as a suspect until a criminal conviction takes legal effect.
🟡 To recover from the outlet nearly 800 thousand hryvnias (of which 300 thousand hryvnias are legal assistance costs).
The case is being heard by Judge Oleksiy Sokolov.
Notably, Borzykh’s common-law wife, Darya Polyakova, effectively resorted to threats under Inna Vedernikova’s post, writing: “...it’s still unknown who will come out of this story with a suspicion, we can place bets...”.
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