A few days ago, Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky imposed sanctions against the ex-head of his office Andrey Bogdan, initiated, according to ZN. UA Security Service of Ukraine. In response, Bogdan himself stated that initiating sanctions against him is a criminal offense..

“My quick investigation into the circumstances of the sanctions against me showed that they were imposed against me for distributing the Mindich tapes among journalists.”. The complex structure of publishing corrupt conversations among officials is hidden behind the legal phrase “for systemic discrediting of the highest leadership of the state”. That is, simply for criticizing the authorities, for the truth, which was published by the same journalists who constantly and systematically criticized me,” Bogdan said in a video message.

According to his version, the sanctions were imposed not for corruption, but for opposing it. In particular, due to the "

“Since I have no other way but to fight this injustice, I am starting my independent legal investigation into the circumstances of the commission of a criminal offense - the application of sanctions against Andrei Bogdan. And I promise, all officials who were involved in the commission of this crime, or who in a certain way opposed the establishment of the truth, will be brought to criminal responsibility. Sanctions are just sanctions,” he said.

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It should be noted that even before the official promulgation of the decree, Bogdan wrote a detailed message on Facebook, in which he said that within three days he had been receiving warnings about Zelensky’s intention to sign sanctions against him. Then he expressed several versions of the president’s motivation: the desire to divert public attention; personal grievances regarding Bogdan’s post on a social network; suspicions that Bogdan is involved in the “leak” of documents in the chain Mindich - Kolomoisky - Bogdan - Smirnov - journalists.