The National Anti-Corruption Bureau continues to investigate several cases of interference in the activities of the prosecutor, which could prevent the presentation of suspicion to the judges of the recently liquidated District Administrative Court of Kyiv in the case of the tapes of the head of the court Pavel Vovk, Inna Vedernikova told ZN in an interview. UA head of the main division of NABU detectives Andrey Kaluzhinskiy.

According to him, on that day (talking about July 16, 2020), when Deputy Prosecutor General Andrey Lyubovich signed the suspicions to the judges of the UAC and tried to enter information about the suspicions into the Unified Register of Pre-trial Investigations, he realized that his flash drive was blocked. However, after contacting the corresponding report, the flash drive was immediately unlocked.

“That is, it was an attempt to somehow interfere, but it was not successful.. Because not a single flash drive prevents the prosecutor from exercising his powers. On that day, Lyubovich signed the suspicions, and the prosecutors of the Specialized Anti-Corruption Prosecutor's Office, together with the detectives, handed them over. Although these suspicions were to be handed over by the prosecutors of the Office of the Prosecutor General of Ukraine,” Kaluzhinskiy noted..

At that time, procedural management of the case was carried out by the prosecutors of the UCP, but the then head of the department of the Office of the Prosecutor General, referring to the instructions of the leadership, forbade his subordinates to participate in serving the suspicion.

“The fact of interference was made public,” Kaluzhinskiy clarifies.. - They even posted a record on the Internet. Therefore, we were forced to negotiate in an emergency mode with the prosecutors of the SAPO so that they would pick up this baton and instead of the prosecutors of the Office of the Prosecutor General, they would hand over suspicion.

NABU promptly responded to the actions of the Office of the Prosecutor General and opened cases on the fact of interference.

" A case was registered on the fact of interference in the activities of the prosecutor of the OGPU. We are investigating it. There was also a case on the fact that they tried to prevent Lyubovich from exercising his official powers.. This case was transferred by the then leadership of the SAPO to the State Bureau of Investigation,” he noted..

But recently, the new head of the SAP, Alexander Klimenko, demanded it and returned it to NABU. And on the same fact, the OGPU registered the criminal proceedings, determining the jurisdiction under the main investigative department of the Security Service of Ukraine. However, this production, on the initiative of the new head of the SAP, was also requested from them..

“And today all these productions are. We recently received them, so we will think about how and where to move, ”says the chief detective.

When asked by a journalist whether Irina Venediktova will answer for her deeds, Kaluzhinsky replied: “Now I can say that these cases are not closed, they will be investigated. Which decision will be made will depend on the evidence we gather.”.

It should be noted that parallel cases in other bodies are now a scheme to counter NABU. According to Kaluzhinskiy, approximately 15–20% of all cases investigated by NABU detectives have “clones” in other investigative agencies, but this scheme does not stop the bureau’s investigations, although sometimes it significantly complicates the work, because other investigative agencies can demand evidence from NABU and.

About why even the war did not cure Ukraine of corruption, about old cases and new cases against corrupt officials, about relations with other security officials and the Bankova factor, read in the interview with the head of the main NABU detective unit Andriy Kaluzhinskiy “We have people who are suspected or accused of corruption. They are promoted and interviewed and invited to events,” which he gave for the first time during his long career at NABU.