The State Bureau of Investigation of Ukraine (SBI) has initiated two criminal proceedings against the head of the Anti-Corruption Center (CPC) Vitaly Shabunin. This decision was made in connection with statements about alleged falsification of documents and evasion of military service.
Vitaly Shabunin, who heads the Anti-Corruption Center, is a well-known public activist and figure in Ukrainian political life. However, recently, a significant dispute arose around him, which turned out to be the reason for the opening of criminal proceedings.
This was stated by journalist Volodymyr Boyko on Facebook.
He noted that cases were opened against Shabunin under part 4 of Article 409 of the Criminal Code on evasion of military service and Part 1 of Art. 358 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine - forgery of an official document.
According to Boyk, the second case is related to the fact that Shabunin submitted to the military unit where he was on duty several letters signed by the head of the NAZK, Oleksandr Novikov, and the deputy head of the NAZK, Artem Sytnyk, with a request to send soldier Shabunin to them.
He noted that after the situation gained publicity, the management of the National People's Committee began to officially assure that such letters were never sent and that Shabunin made them himself.
"I think that the leadership of NAZK is lying and these letters are real. However, this does not in any way affect the qualification of the actions of the commander of the military unit, who, illegally seconding the soldier Shabunin to the National Security Agency, paid him 53,000 hryvnias every month. — UAH 23,000 in monetary support and UAH 30,000 in additional remuneration for, apparently, the performance of combat missions. These tasks, as far as I understand, consisted in the fact that soldier Shabunin took empty bottles out of Sytnyk's office," Boyka's post reads.
Vitaly Shabunin in NV's comment confirmed this information, noting that two criminal proceedings were indeed opened against him.
In December, the investigative judge of the Shevchenkivskiy District Court of Kyiv ordered the DBI to register a statement of criminal offense on the grounds of forgery of documents and evasion of military service by Vitaly Shabunin.
The relevant resolution was adopted following a complaint from Rostyslav Kravets, head of the NGO "Public Council of Integrity", who in his appeal asked to verify the facts that Shabunin was allegedly enrolled in the personnel of a military unit, but did not complete military service, and also forged documents, on on the basis of which he was on a business trip.
