There are no political agreements on not announcing suspicions and there cannot be any – NABU chief
Ukraine’s anti-corruption agencies have no political agreements regarding notifying or not notifying specific individuals of suspicion, assures National Anti-Corruption Bureau (NABU) Director Semen Kryvonos.
"Right now I’m ready for suspicions against the NABU chief and the Special Anti-corruption Prosecutor’s Office (SAPO) chief… if there is a corpus delicti, and not fabrications and fairy tales," Kryvonos said at a briefing in Kyiv on Tuesday, responding to a question about claims that failure to notify certain high-ranking officials of suspicion could be part of a deal to avoid opening criminal cases against NABU and SAPO leaders.
"There can be no political agreements in NABU and SAPO, because NABU and SAP are not Kryvonos and Klymenko, but a team… and agreements are fundamentally impossible," Kryvonos emphasized.
He noted that when evidence for notification of suspicion is collected by detectives and prosecutors, the suspicion is announced. "If someone has not been notified of suspicion, it means that evidence collection is ongoing," the NABU director explained.
