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Vitalii Shabunin published the Bureau of Investigation's response to the lawsuit.
When the State Bureau of Investigation officially informed that a suspicion had been served on the head of the Center for Anti-Corruption, Vitaliy Shabunin, he filed a lawsuit against the SBI. And already in court, SBI Director Oleksiy Sukhachov is trying to distance himself from the official news of the suspicion, Shabunin reported.
“Even during my service, the SBI officially notified that I was suspected, including for illegal use of a volunteer car. Since this was a lie, I went to court against the SBI. Do you know what Sukhachov’s position in court is? Hold on: prove that we wrote about Shabunin!”, Shabunin stated.
He also published the response to the lawsuit, in which the SBI’s position is indicated. Specifically, the document states: “In the referenced publication the SBI spoke about notifying a suspect, ‘one of the public activists,’ but it did not contain any personal data, any criminal case number, or any specific information about his position, place of service, military unit, professional or public activity that would allow direct or even indirect identification that this concerns the plaintiff.”
Recall that 10 in July 2025 of this year Shabunin stated that he was being transferred from Kharkiv to a combat brigade on the front line after criticism of the draft law on amnesty for corruption in the defense sector. And the very next day searches took place at the military unit in Chuhuiv to which the activist had been transferred, as well as at his family home.
After this, the SBI announced suspicion of Shabunin. He is charged with evading military service and illegally using a vehicle assigned for the needs of the Armed Forces. The Center for Anti-Corruption considers these charges completely unfounded, as Shabunin voluntarily joined the Armed Forces immediately after the full-scale Russian aggression began. In September, the Center for Anti-Corruption announced that Shabunin had been served an updated suspicion, from which some publicly announced accusations were removed.
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