Journalist Volodymyr Boyko, who is fighting in the ranks of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, told how he found out about, as he claims, the fictitious military service of anti-corruption activist Shabunin.
This fact is being investigated by the SBI - according to preliminary data, the head of the Anti-Corruption Center was listed in the military, but did not actually serve.
According to Boyk, in July 2023, an NAZK employee contacted him anonymously and informed him that the department had sent letters to one of the military units with a request to "accommodate" Shabunin.
After sending out official requests, it turned out that it was the 207th separate battalion of the 241st separate TRO brigade, in which Boyko himself serves. According to him, during Shabunin's service, the mentioned battalion was stationed near Bakhmut. But the anti-corruptionist himself, according to the journalist, "lived in Kyiv, where, as a private entrepreneur, he conducted some trainings, filmed footage of his poor fight against corruption."
Boyko contacted acquaintances from the 207th battalion (he himself serves in the 206th) and learned from them that Shabunin had agreed with someone from the battalion command in March 2022 - that is, in the first days of the war. Enrollment there took place retroactively - on February 25 and allegedly on the instructions of the TCC.
According to the journalist, in this way, the anti-corruption officer was able to free himself from real mobilization, as well as stop the investigation of the criminal case against him, which has been going on since 2017 (Shabunin submitted a petition that he cannot go to the meeting because of the service).
But in reality, the activist appeared "only a few times" in the 207th battalion.
Also, according to Boyk, in the first days of the war, Shabunin's associate at the Anti-Corruption Center, Daria Kaleniuk, helped her husband, Orest Rudy, the official founder of the CPK, to leave Ukraine. According to the journalist, "for a bribe for forged documents."
But Shabunin, writes Boyko, could not go abroad, because a criminal case was opened against him, so a scheme with fictitious military service was needed.
