NABU detectives allowed to leave Ukraine only for official purposes

Detectives of the National Anti-Corruption Bureau were restricted from traveling abroad, being allowed to travel only on official business trips.

This is evidenced by the law on strengthening the powers of the NABU and the SAPO, the Ukrainian News agency reports.

The author of the law is President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. He has already signed this law, the Verkhovna Rada previously approved it.

The final provisions of this law state that the Cabinet of Ministers and the National Anti-Corruption Bureau, within one month from the date of entry into force of the law, must make amendments to the regulatory legal acts prohibiting, for the duration of martial law, the travel of employees of the National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine abroad, except for business trips.

As the Ukrainian News agency earlier reported, the NABU admitted that during the escape of businessman Hennadii Boholiubov from Ukraine, NABU detectives traveled abroad, but on business trips. The National Agency on Corruption Prevention, the Specialized Anti-Corruption Prosecutor's Office, and the Bureau of Economic Security are currently headed by former employees of the National Anti-Corruption Bureau. The NABU director was involved in the SSU case of extorting USD 120,000 in bribes from an entrepreneur. The wife of the director of NABU, Semen Kryvonos, Halyna Polshynska, gave Hanna Tkachenko, the wife of the head of the Kyiv City Military Administration, Tymur Tkachenko, an apartment in Kyiv, and Hanna Tkachenko gave Halyna Polshynska a dacha near Kyiv.