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A person involved in the NABU case filed a lawsuit against ZN.UA and a reporter for the outlet.
Former Deputy Chief Military Prosecutor Dmytro Borzyk filed a lawsuit with the Pecherskyi District Court of Kyiv. He demands that the information from the investigation “The Case of the Lawyer-Hackers: How NABU Discovered Parasites” be declared unreliable. His claims also concern the publication of a name as a suspect before a final guilty verdict has taken effect.
The lawsuit concerns ZN.UA and the outlet’s domestic politics editor, Inna Vedernikova. Journalists say they contacted NABU, which confirmed: Dmytro Borzyk has the status of a suspect.
NABU also recalled the Supreme Court’s position: disputes about refuting information from pretrial investigation bodies cannot be heard in civil proceedings. A representative of ZN.UA believes the lawsuit bears signs of pressure on journalists. The first court hearing is scheduled for 10 August.
Recall that NABU announced suspicions against three lawyers from the firm “Garantiia vashykh prav” (Guarantee of Your Rights), including Dmytro Borzyk. According to the investigation, they had unauthorized access to materials from at least 100 criminal proceedings of law enforcement agencies, including about 30 NABU cases related to top-level corruption. This case was covered in the ZN.UA investigation.
Earlier, Pecherskyi District Court judge Serhii Vovk prohibited the editorial offices of Slidstvo.Info and the Centre for Countering Corruption, as well as one of the article’s authors — Alina Stryzhak — from publishing an investigation about “143 apartments of the brother of the DBR director.” In solidarity, eight media outlets published the material, to which the court’s ban did not apply.
