Sexual coercion of witness not first case of violation of law in NACB – Posternak on Anti-Corruption Bureau degradation

The bureau is degrading at an accelerated pace – it needs to be rebooted as soon as possible, – believes political expert Oleh Posternak.

"Operation "YAYEnaBU", or how in the National Anti-Corruption Bureau they force witnesses to have intimate relations and do not refuse from a budget thousand with salaries in the millions. The degradation of the NACB continues. And its pace is going off scale. The NACB is confidently discrediting the idea of ​​fighting corruption. It needs to be rebooted. The clock is ticking louder and louder. Tomorrow's reorganization may turn out to be a belated step," wrote Posternak.

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He cited information that a NACB detective had sex with a key witness in the Odesa airport case.

"The report notes that we are talking about Stanislav Braverman. And this is not the first case in the Bureau when a detective persuades a witness to have intimate relations. Or does not persuade, but exchanges it for exemption from liability in a package with the necessary testimony. Everyone can see in this what they like. Only the facts will not change in any way," the expert noted.

He reported that sex for the sake of recruitment was actively used by the KGB in Soviet times.

"It seems that the NACB decided to adopt from the KGB not only totalitarian methods of pressure on the accused. They also took something else – for themselves, that is, for the flesh. As the famous lawyer Oleh Shram writes, sex with a witness is illegal and violates all possible standards of investigations," he emphasized.

In his opinion, the final degradation of the NACB is confirmed by another situation that happened recently.

"Detective of the Bureau Oleksandr Kot, who receives over a million hryvnias in salary per year, has issued a thousand of a winter e-support. I personally know veterans who, in principle, do not issue benefits for communal services, because they do not want to take extra money from the state. And these are people who are far from the highest paid in the country. And here – he did not hesitate to take a kopeck (compared to the salary)," the expert got outraged.

He recalled a number of other scandals that have happened with the NACB recently.

"Now sex with witnesses. Before that – the detention of a NACB representative for the manufacture and sale of drugs. Before that – the leaks of investigation materials by the NACB leadership to suspects, and back  before that – the purchase of luxury cars and apartments in the center of Kyiv, and before that – the official recognition of the head of the NACB as corrupt. This list of articles of the Criminal Code, the heroes of which are those who should fight corruption, can be continued for a long time," concluded Posternak.

As reported, law enforcement officers recently detained a representative of the NACB for the manufacture and sale of drugs. The criminal group he led was brewing and selling amphetamine, as well as smuggling the drug precursor phenylnitropropene. The group's monthly income is estimated at over UAH 50 million.