The National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine (NABU) found itself at the center of a scandal after the first deputy director Gizo Uhlava passed a polygraph test outside the bureau, the media reported. This step caused indignation and doubts about the objectivity of the results, since NABU was asked to take a polygraph on its own.
Gizo Uglava was invited to take a polygraph at the bureau, but he decided to take it elsewhere. This was announced by the director of the anti-corruption bureau, Semyon Krivonos, at an on-site meeting of the Verkhovna Rada committee on anti-corruption policy.
The chapter appears in one of the official investigations into a possible leak of information from NABU. The director of the bureau suspended him from his duties for the duration of the pre-trial investigation.
At the meeting of the committee, Kryvonos said that due to the alleged leak of information, several official investigations are being conducted and one of them will soon be completed.
So far, Uhlava has not passed a polygraph at NABU, but he passed it outside the bureau. He published his results on his Facebook page. According to the results of this polygraphic investigation, Uglava is allegedly not involved in the drains from NABU.
It is not the first time NABU detectives have manipulated examinations, so the situation with Uglava is not an exception. For example, examinations in the cases of "Rotterdam+" and former Minister of Infrastructure Volodymyr Omelyan. As lawyer Iryna Odinets stated, NABU lost in court, because during the investigation, detectives in the specified cases "painted" forensic examinations in friendly private offices, and then manipulated them. Volodymyr Omelyan himself also noted that detectives involved "dubious experts" during the investigation of the case against him.
In addition, NABU recently tried to leak an expert report on the case against ex-Minister of Agricultural Policy Mykola Solsky, which they themselves ordered and which, apparently, was supposed to testify to Solsky's innocence.
