The National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine (NABU) has found itself at the center of a scandal after its first deputy director, Gizo Uglava, took a polygraph test outside the bureau, media reports said. The move sparked outrage and doubts about the objectivity of the results, as NABU was asked to take the polygraph test on its own.
Gizo Uglava was invited to take a polygraph test at the bureau, but he decided to take it elsewhere. This was announced by the director of the anti-corruption bureau, Semen Kryvonos, at an off-site meeting of the Verkhovna Rada Committee on Anti-Corruption Policy.
Uglava is involved in one of the official investigations into the alleged leak of information from NABU. The bureau's director suspended him from his duties during the pre-trial investigation.
At the committee meeting, Kryvonos reported that several official investigations are being conducted due to the alleged leak of information, and one of them will soon be completed.
So far, Uglava has not taken a polygraph at NABU, but he did take one outside the bureau. He published the results on his Facebook page. According to the results of this polygraph examination, Uglava is allegedly not involved in the leaks from NABU.
This is not the first time that NABU detectives have manipulated expert opinions, so the situation with Uhlava is no exception. For example, the expert opinions in the cases of “Rotterdam+” and former Minister of Infrastructure Volodymyr Omelyan. As lawyer Iryna Odynets stated, NABU lost in court because during the investigation, detectives in the indicated cases “painted” forensic expert opinions in friendly private offices, and then manipulated them. Volodymyr Omelyan himself also noted that the detectives involved “dubious experts” during the investigation of the case against him.
In addition, NABU recently tried to suppress the expert examination in the case against former Minister of Agricultural Policy Mykola Solsky, which they themselves ordered and which, apparently, was supposed to testify to Solsky's innocence.
