Ukraine’s State Investigative Bureau Destroys Evidence

Cover up of criminality

U.S. Agency for Global Media financed Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) reported that Ukraine’s State Investigative Bureau destroyed evidence prior to Russia entering Ukraine. Evidence which relates to the systemic corruption of Ukraine, including the shooting of protesters:

The material destroyed involved investigations into former President Petro Poroshenko; Viktor Medvedchuk, a deputy who is a close friend of Russian President Vladimir Putin; as well as Oleksandr Yakimenko, the former head of Ukraine’s Security Service (SBU) who ordered the shooting of protesters in Kyiv in 2014.

The timing coincided with when Russia was about to enter Ukraine, and adversely impacted 140 cases:

[…] documents pertaining to 140 criminal cases were withdrawn from the State Investigative Bureau’s headquarters in Kyiv at 1:30 a.m. on February 24, just two and a half hours before Russia launched its invasion.

This is explosive because it shows a major systemic corruption, using the Russia entry into Ukraine as a pretext to commit corrupt and unbecoming acts, using the destruction of the war to effectively cover their tracks.

CurrentTime TV, a Russian-language channel created by Radio Free Europe and Voice of America (so RFE/RL are just quoting themselves via proxy) who reported on the story declared (via translation) that:

The prosecutors in these criminal proceedings did not give consent to the destruction of these materials.

Another CurrentTime article reports some of the criminal cases whose documents were destroyed, which included (via translation) documents relating to the ‘Kharkov agreements’ (cheaper gas in exchange for allowing Russian ships passage), ‘impoverishment of the Ukrainian army’ (weapons sold or given away to Russia), the ‘coal case of Medvedchuk’ (buying coal from DPR and LPR regions of Ukraine) and the ‘Rybalsky forge case’ (which involves the capture of Ukrainian vessels in 2018), besides, we imagine, others.

Curiously, the main focus has been on Russia-related corruption cases, but given there are 140 cases, The Daily Beagle wonders if there are any American, European or British-related corruption cases.

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