Recently, law enforcement officers detained a National Anti-Corruption Bureau’s (NABU) representative for manufacturing and selling drugs. This indicates that the Bureau is compromising the fight against corruption as such and it needs to be rebooted.
This was written by political expert and lawyer Mykhailo Shnaider.
"The state spends over UAH 2 billion every year not just on an inefficient organization. NABU sometimes compromises the fight against corruption as such. And NABU needs to be rebooted. Recently, a certain NABU employee was caught manufacturing and selling cheap drugs," Shnaider wrote.
According to him, sources provided a video of this person's communication with the National Police patrol officers.
“The "hero" whistleblower in the video is one of the Bureau's employees, Mykola Masliak, who was caught selling dozens of kilograms of low-quality synthetic drugs. He did not act alone, they acted as a group. They worked boldly and openly, because the leader was a NABU whistleblower. Every month, the group of this so-called NABU employee earned more than UAH 50 million on drugs. Whether they shared it with the management is being investigated," the expert noted.
As the author notes, the criminal group cooked and sold amphetamine, and also smuggled the drug precursor phenylnitropropene. In view of this, the expert formulated a number of questions for the NABU leadership.
"Can such people be involved in the work of the structure? How was he checked? Why did NABU not stop this drug trafficking activity? And will someone be held responsible? In general, in less than 10 years of its existence, NABU has turned from a flagship of the fight against corruption into a typical example of a post-Soviet structure with an appropriate set of personnel," he emphasized.
According to the expert, this development of events is logical, given the recent scandals surrounding NABU.
"What can we say about an ordinary whistleblower if the elite of NABU - its detectives - flee from Ukraine to another state together with a state secret; if the detectives publicly leak the entire internal schedule before being fired; if in 10 years of its existence, society has not heard a single report from the heads of the Bureau to the parliament, to which they are supposed to report," Schneider concluded.
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