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Nikolay Zlochevsky (Photo: Burisma Group)
Anti-corruption authorities faced “unprecedented resistance” from individual representatives of the Prosecutor General’s Office and the Kiev Pechersk District Court in the case of former Minister of Ecology and Natural Resources Nikolai Zlochevsky, NABU said.
The office emphasized that the General Prosecutor’s Office contributes to the legitimization of the illegal decision made by the Pechersk Court on the change of jurisdiction over the Zlochevsky case.
According to NABU, detectives have established facts of the former minister’s possible influence on current government officials, including law enforcement agencies. With this in mind, the office suggested that a senior official could avoid liability for corruption.
“We have not observed such a number of clearly illegal actions by the prosecutor’s office and judicial authorities during the entire period of existence of the anti-corruption agencies,” the NABU statement said.
Due to public outrage, NABU declassified the recordings of the negotiations of the participants in the crime.
The second video shows the moment of the arrest of one of the suspects and his threat to the detective with a firearm. It was possible to stop the resistance and force them to lay down their arms only after the report on the video recording of the investigative action.
At the end of December 2020, the Kiev Pechersky District Court ordered a change of jurisdiction in criminal proceedings for a record $ 5 million bribe to the leadership of the Anti-Corruption Specialized Prosecutor’s Office of representatives of former Minister of Ecology Nikolai Zlochevsky. The case was investigated by NABU and SAP.
On June 12, 2020, with a $ 6 million bribe to the heads of NABU and SAP, the first deputy director of the Kiev Tax Service, Nikolai Ilyashenko, the director of Legal Affairs of Burisma, Andrei Kichu and another confidant were arrested. by Nikolai Zlochevsky.
According to the investigation, they wanted to give a bribe to close the criminal case against the oligarch Nikolai Zlochevsky, owner of the Burisma company.
As part of the investigation of the case, Nikolai Zlochevsky was informed of the suspicion. He was detained in absentia by the Supreme Anticorruption Court.
Former Minister of Ecology Mykola Zlochevsky left Ukraine in late 2014 after receiving the status of a suspected illegal enrichment. In January 2015, the GPU put it on the wanted list. In the fall of 2016, an information and statistics card on the search for the former minister was removed from the Interior Ministry’s website.
