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Record-breaking bribe “for Sitnik” was handed by the widely known freelance NABU agent Shevchenko
A bribe for the NABU director Artyom Sitnik from the “right hand” of Zlochyevsky was taken by the widely known NABU freelance agent Yevhen Shevchenko.
This is described in a Yuriy Butusov article.
The author notes: “Ilyashenko handed 6 millions of dollars to a NABU freelance agent, everyone knows … Yevhen Shevchenko! Yes! That same Shevchenko, a subject of numerous NABU court cases, about which, it would seem, everyone knows. 1 a million dollars of the bribe were handed to him through intermediaries and were seized in Ilyashenko’s car.”
And now another shock: what exactly was this enormous cash amount given for! For the Special Anti-Corruption Prosecutor Nazar Holodnytskyy to close the case of the notoriously known Burisma company, owned by oligarch Mykola Zlochevs’kyi, and in whose supervisory board sat Joe Biden’s son, a former U.S. vice president and now a candidate for the U.S. presidency from the Democratic Party!
In NABU and SAP, the Burisma case lingered for a long time with no movement, because proving Zlochevskyi’s involvement was nearly impossible, especially amid the chaos in power.
Ilyashenko arrived for the meeting; the money was handed after Holodnytskyi’s decision to close the case was entered into the Unified State Registry of Court Decisions. He demanded proof of the decision to close the case.
Sitnik and Holodnytskyi, on this occasion, set aside all past conflicts and mutual accusations. And Holodnytskyi entered changes into the ERDR and closed Zlochevskyi’s case. Ilyashenko realized that the obligation had been fulfilled and handed over the money. This is where the arrest took place.
Mykola Ilyashenko is one of the most influential people in Ukrainian government, a system-builder and pivotal in many tax and shadow matters, since Kyiv is the country’s main tax harbor. An investigation into him by Sledstvo.Info has already been published. Journalists found in the family of the modest official 11 an apartment and a country villa, and this is only what is reflected in official databases. In reality, Ilyashenko’s capabilities are many times greater than what the media can uncover. For many years, Ilyashenko has been one of the leaders of the State Tax Service. He became very wealthy already under Yanukovych, increased his influence under Poroshenko, and became utterly indispensable and supremely influential under Zelensky. Ilyashenko has visited the President’s Office several times; he was in long-standing good relations with many influential people in the new government, for example with the head of the Office of the President Andriy Yermak.
Zelensky replaced almost the entire senior leadership of the State Tax Service, all except Ilyashenko. And this happened despite journalists having voiced facts about Ilyashenko’s excessively large wealth for a official. This support of “servants of the people” likely led Ilyashenko to believe that anything could be done now, and he would accelerate fully.”
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