The "Mindichgate" case is a performance that will end in nothing, — Kulpa

The scandalous "Mindichgate" case being investigated by NABU has no genuine anti-corruption purpose and will ultimately end without results. It is not about real corruption fighting, but rather a tool of public pressure and control over power.

This was stated by Piotr Kulpa, former secretary of the Polish delegation to the NATO Parliamentary Assembly and former Deputy Secretary of the Ministry of Economy and Labor of Poland.

"This is done purely for the press. From a legal point of view, the material is practically zero," Kulpa said.

According to him, the West possesses dossiers and compromising material on hundreds of Ukrainian officials, but it does not make this information public because it serves as an instrument of influence. That is why, in Kulpa’s view, the court process will not produce any result.

Kulpa believes that what society saw on the so-called "Mindich tapes" is actually just a cash-exchange mechanism:

"The exchange is needed to supply the system with cash and to settle transfer issues for state and non-state matters. In this exchange we see deputies receiving cash in envelopes each month. That is what NABU is showing us."

He added that now another case has emerged — the "Tymoshenko tapes" — which, in his view, are only an introduction to a broader performance and have a common purpose. Kulpa even suggested that NABU raids could next target David Arakhamiya (chair of the Servant of the People faction in the Verkhovna Rada).

"Suppose information leaks that out of 415 MPs of Ukraine, dossiers exist indicating that 370 of them took money for voting. Then who would remain? The anti-corruption activists. It turns out this is actually a creeping coup carried out by people working against Ukraine," he said.

For this reason, Kulpa thinks there are many unfinished cases in Ukraine: "So the whole story of Ukraine is hundreds of instances where someone was caught, money was shown, and then everything ended in nothing. Because it’s impossible to destroy the system that provides control."