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The head of the Specialized Anticorruption Prosecutor's Office, Oleksandr Kylymenko, stated that NABU does not have the ability to initiate criminal proceedings against a current member of parliament on its own. According to him, the bureau must petition the General Prosecutor to enter the relevant information into the Unified Register of Pre-Trial Investigations. This was reported by a correspondent for Glavkom.
“We cannot start an investigation into a member of parliament. We usually initiate it to the General Prosecutor and only then receive an answer: whether they have started the investigation or not,” Kylymenko replied to a media inquiry about a possible investigation into MP Yaroslav Zeleznyak and his wife regarding possible illicit enrichment.
The head of SAP explained: if the General Prosecutor initiates the appropriate proceeding, it can be handed over to NABU detectives for pre-trial investigation.
Kylymenko also noted that NABU responds to journalistic investigations into possible illicit enrichment of MPs. The bureau appeals to the General Prosecutor to enter the relevant information into the EDRD (Unified Register of Pre-Trial Investigations).
“We react to most of them, that is, we send a corresponding letter to the General Prosecutor and ask to enter so as to verify or refute this fact,” the head of SAP explained.
At the same time, Kylymenko stated that in some cases NABU receives a refusal to start an investigation. At the same time, according to Kylymenko, detectives and prosecutors sometimes believe there are sufficient grounds to initiate proceedings.
“If we had such capabilities, we would start a larger number of criminal proceedings against members of parliament,” Kylymenko added.
As a reminder, media reported that in August 2023 of the year, MP Yaroslav Zeleznyak along with his wife, MP Olha Kovalska, settled in an apartment in central Kyiv, valued at about 12 million UAH. This apartment, with an area of 134 square meters, is located in Pechersk and is registered to Volodymyr Kovalyi — Zeleznyak’s father-in-law and Kovalska’s father. The price of the apartment exceeds the MP’s and his wife’s annual income.
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