Lawyer: dismissal of Uglava is illegal
3 September 2024 14:47
Managing partner of AVER LEX law firm Olga Prosyanyu, who represents NABU First Deputy Director Gizo Uglava in court, said that his dismissal was illegal and that this decision would be appealed in court, "Komersant Ukrainian" reports
“In addition to the NACP, the court will now also consider the abuses of the NABU Director! We are confident in our position. The dismissal is illegal. Even a member of the Public Control Council wrote a dissenting opinion on this matter, others abstained, and the votes on the reprimand/dismissal were divided,” Prosyanyuk wrote on her Facebook page.
She noted that the decision was made by the NABU Director under pressure and in violation of the procedure.
“The decision was made by the NABU Director under pressure and in violation of the procedure (due to a conflict of interest, Kryvonos had no right to make any decision regarding Gizo Uglava). Therefore, the next steps in proving the Client’s case in NABU cases will be to go to court and continue to cooperate with the NACP as a whistleblower of the misconduct of NABU Director Semen Kryvonos,” she emphasised.
Prosyanyuk reminded that the NACP has already started monitoring and controlling the possible violation of anti-corruption legislation by the NABU Director, and the Client has been granted the status of a whistleblower.
As reported by Kommersant Ukrainian
, detectives of the National Anti-Corruption Bureau are writing massive reports on their management.
The sources of Kommersant Ukrayinsky claim that NABU detectives report, in particular, on the First Deputy Director of the National Anti-Corruption Bureau Gizo Uglava, on cases of interference in the work of detectives, unspoken instructions, information leaks, etc.
The detectives became more active after the scandal of information leakage in a high-profile case.
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What is known about the “information leak” in the NABU
on 22 May, the Specialised Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office conducted searches at the home of a NABU employee suspected of abuse of office.
The media reported that the searches were conducted as part of a criminal investigation into a “big construction” case.
As the Specialised Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office explained earlier, one and a half billion hryvnias disappeared during the Big Construction project. The case involves the former head of the Dnipro Regional State Administration Valentyn Reznichenko and his partner, the current consultant to the Prosecutor General’s Office Yurii Holyk.
It should be noted that the Director of the National Anti-Corruption Bureau has suspended his first deputy, Gizo Uglava, to ensure an “objective pre-trial investigation” launched over the alleged leak.
The anti-corruption agencies promised to make the results of the investigation public.
What is known about Gizo Uglava
Gizo Uglava worked at the Prosecutor’s Office of Georgia from 1998 to 2012. During this period, he received three state awards: The Medal of Honour, the Order of Honour and the Order of the Shining.
In 2015, Uglava was granted Ukrainian citizenship and became the first deputy director of the new anti-corruption body, the National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine (NABU). In April 2022, he began acting as NABU Director due to the absence of a permanent head. In March 2023, Semen Kryvonos was appointed NABU Director.
In 2017, the Prosecutor General’s Office of Ukraine opened a case against Uglava to find out whether he had Georgian citizenship at the time of his appointment to a public office in Ukraine. The NABU stated that the proceedings were a form of pressure on the organisation and explained that Uglava automatically lost his Georgian citizenship when he received Ukrainian citizenship.
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