Ukraine's Operation Carthage: NABU, SAPO Expose Bribery Scheme Involving Senior Officials
"As part of Operation Carthage, NABU and SAPO have exposed a criminal organization whose members established a system of systematically paying bribes to senior law enforcement officials in exchange for allowing fraudulent call centers and other illegal businesses to operate unhindered," the bureau said.
Read also: Pyshnyy says NABU searches unrelated to him or NBU operationsAccording to investigators, "current senior officials of the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU), the National Police, the Prosecutor General's Office, as well as representatives of the criminal underworld, were involved in the criminal activity," NABU stressed, adding that further details would be provided later.
Early on November 4, NABU said that a senior Security Service of Ukraine official was threatening to use firearms and blocking access for NABU detectives to the site of a search.
"While NABU detectives were conducting lawful investigative actions pursuant to a ruling by an investigating judge of the High Anti-Corruption Court, one of the senior SBU officials threatened to use firearms and barred the detectives from accessing the search site," the statement said.
NABU also said that SBU special forces had arrived at the search site.
Photo: NABU
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