MP Vlasenko commented on the search of his office by detectives and called it “revenge” for criticizing NABU
14 January 17:22
People’s Deputy Serhiy Vlasenko, whose office, according to Yulia Tymoshenko, was searched by NABU officials, responded to these events with a post on Facebook, reports "Komersant Ukrainian".
He said he thinks NABU did this to get back at him “for his long-standing public stance on NABU-SAP-VAKS.”
“While on a business trip to a meeting of the PACE Committee on the Election of Judges to the ECHR, of which I have been a member for eleven years, I was surprised to learn that NABU believes that I was doing something wrong in Ukraine at the same time (how else can the search be explained?). Iron logic. As always.
I associate such attempts by NABU with revenge for my established public position on NABU-SAP-VAKS. And my political position on voting in the summer for well-known laws that reduced the ability of NABU-SAP to engage in “lawlessness.”
I have held this position for the same eleven years. I hold it publicly and consistently. I believe that bodies engaged in their own PR and legal lawlessness have no relation to either law enforcement or the fight against corruption,” the deputy wrote.
He added that “the facts of obvious corruption in the High Council of Justice and the facts of possible corruption during competitions for judicial positions, which were clearly exposed by our Temporary Special Commission, did not interest either NABU or SAP at all.”
“The same applies to the facts of corruption in the ‘independent’ supervisory boards of state-owned enterprises. The same applies to the fact of illegal financing of members of the HRD. The same applies to many other things.
I have heard a lot from colleagues and friends about threats against me from the leadership of NABU and SAPO. Not directly, but in their interviews, the leaders of NABU and SAPO confirmed this. Okay. I am ready for this. I understood what I was getting myself into when I proposed to my colleagues in parliament to create a TSK regarding possible corruption in the law enforcement and judicial systems,” the politician wrote.
Vlasenko noted that he would appeal to NABU for the return of his seized property and that he would continue his work as head of the TSK, “based on his life and political convictions.”
What preceded
Late yesterday evening and into the early hours of today, NABU continued its investigation at the central office of the Batkivshchyna party on suspicion that Yulia Tymoshenko had offered illegal benefits to deputies from other factions for voting “correctly.”
Yulia Tymoshenko was notified of the suspicion.
The leader of Batkivshchyna herself rejects the accusations, calling them a “political order.”
