11:03 18.07.2018

NABU not ruling out raid on its Kyiv office involved MP Deidei, Interior Minister's son

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NABU not ruling out raid on its Kyiv office involved MP Deidei, Interior Minister's son

The National Anti-corruption Bureau of Ukraine (NABU) is not ruling out that the raid on its office in Kyiv on Tuesday was a planned provocation orchestrated by political forces connected with Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine deputy Yevhen Deidei and a close relative of Ukraine's Interior Minister Arsen Avakov.

"On July 17, 2018, an organized group of young hoodlums (titushki) between 11:00 and 12:00 broke into NABU's office. They first entered the public reception area in order to make their appeal. The destroyed a video surveillance camera, broke down the doors and a metal barrier separating the room from NABU offices," NABU's press service said.

NABU said police did not interfere.

"Only after these so-called protesters began to destroy furniture and threaten NABU workers did police intervene and ask them to leave," NABU said.

"We do not exclude that today's events are a deliberate, planned and organized provocation by representatives of certain political forces. This is confirmed by the links of one of the organizers of the action with investigators of the NABU – MP Yevhen Deidei and a close relative of Minister Avakov," NABU said, adding that the interlopers were poorly educated poor persons and were remunerated for the ruckus.

NABU said the incident might be connected to the so-called "backpack case" involving Avakov's son, Oleksandr Avakov.

As earlier reported, NABU last week called the decision of the Specialized Anti-Corruption Prosecutor's Office (SAPO) to close criminal proceedings against two suspects in the so-called "backpack case" - Oleksandr Avakov and ex-Deputy Interior Minister Serhiy Chebotar - incomprehensible.

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