NABU publishes declassified materials from investigative actions that do not constitute a state secret. The secrecy classification has already been removed from these materials.
With the permission of the detective and the prosecutor, the materials are published on NABU’s official resources, its director Semen Kryvonos said at a discussion organised by LB and EFI Group as part of the “New Country” project. He stressed that the Bureau has always acted the same way: even before major exposés, it published investigation materials.
“The exposés of the past year and a half really do generate significant public interest, given the weight and importance of certain suspects and the scale of the corruption offences committed. That is why, of course, it attracts so much attention. But it is also a matter of changing our priorities, the way we expose crimes, our forms and methods, which I will not disclose. We have simply become more effective at obtaining evidence of corruption,” the NABU director explained.
The Bureau has defined a system of priorities and works in accordance with them.
“We don’t record ‘tapes’ on reels. We have modern equipment. ‘Tapes’ is a commonly used media expression. We have no tapes. These are materials from covert investigative and search actions. We do not announce anyone’s names before a final court verdict — that is an important context. If we serve a notice, we have gathered sufficient evidence to notify a person of suspicion; we communicate regarding their status and role in a particular crime. If someone is not named, it means either sufficient evidence has not been collected and the pre-trial investigation is ongoing, or that person is not involved,” said Semen Kryvonos.
- In the “Forrest Gump” investigation, the suspects — the Deputy Head of the Office of the President and former MP Maksym Mykytas — mentioned someone who told Iryna Mudra that corruption should not be fought, but systematised. In the “Carthage” case, there was talk of the “Boss” of the suspected head of a department at the Prosecutor General’s Office, also known as Andriyovych and a former head of the Tax Service.