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A discussion broke out on social media over photos published by the National Anti-Corruption Bureau. The picture shows a safe with numerous stacks of dollars that Ukrainians linked to the case of an official from the Office of the Prosecutor General.
So, 5 September the NABU press service released information about exposing an official of the Office of the Prosecutor General for protecting call centers. A minute later the agency published a post with photographs on its social media. One of them showed a safe with money, but there was no caption for the images. People online then assumed that the money was allegedly seized during the special operation “Carthage.” The law enforcement officers did not comment on the incident.
The next day, Member of Parliament Mykola Tyshchenko said that the money in the safe shown in the NABU photos allegedly belonged to him. According to him, these were funds (10 million hryvnias - ed.) that he posted as bail in a case about the abduction of a person who worked for fraudulent call centers in Dnipro.
“You know, I just looked at the photo from the searches at the Office of the Prosecutor General. There’s a safe full of money. And it seemed to me — I could be wrong — I recognized my own money, which I posted as bail,” Tyshchenko said.
Several public pages began sharing guesses about who the safe with the money belonged to. One theory was that the stacks of dollars in the circulated photos were not directly related to operation “Carthage” or the Office of the Prosecutor General, but were allegedly used by NABU and SAP social media specialists to draw attention. Messages say the safe may have been photographed during investigative actions in another criminal case in Lviv.
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5 September NABU released “recordings” of the official from the Office of the Prosecutor General.
5 September after the searches the prosecutor general “turned up” in a hospital — his office is demanding an investigation of the detectives’ actions.
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