Under the procedural supervision of the Prosecutor General Office, one of the heads of interregional departments of NABU detectives, who is currently in custody on suspicion of aiding the aggressor state, was notified of the change in the previously notified suspicion (part 1 of Art 14, part 2 of Art 28, part 1 of Art. 111-2 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine).

In the course of the pre-trial investigation, new facts of the illegal activity of the specified high-ranking NABU official were found and, based on the collected evidence, he was notified of a new suspicion for committing a corruption criminal offense.

Investigators received relevant information, in particular, from the suspect's phone.

According to the case materials, in the spring of this year, the suspect received an offer from one of his contacts to solve problematic issues in the tax authorities for a number of Ukrainian enterprises.

It was about the adoption by the bodies of the State Tax Service of Ukraine of illegal decisions to exclude about ten companies from the list of risky ones, which was supposed to allow interested persons to carry out financial transactions in the amount of about UAH 30 million.

The analysis of these companies' activities indicates signs that they are front companies used for fraudulent purposes.

At the same time, the cost of such services was estimated at about UAH 900,000, which is the equivalent of 3% of the total amount of cash of these enterprises blocked by the tax service.

According to the investigation, the NABU law enforcement officer accepted this proposal and tried to resolve the issue through a former high-ranking official of the State Tax Service. He also turned to one of the law enforcement officers with whom he worked at NABU for some time for assistance in this regard. During the interrogations, the mentioned persons confirmed that the NABU officer really turned to them with such a request.

Thus, a high-ranking NABU official is suspected of accepting an offer of undue benefit for himself and third parties for influencing the decision-making of persons authorized to perform state functions, that is, for committing a criminal offense provided for in part 2 of Art. 369-2 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine.

In addition, the issue of notice of suspicion to the person who made the offer of an undue benefit is currently being determined.

Pre-trial investigation in criminal proceedings is carried out by an interdepartmental investigative group, which includes investigators of the SSU and the SBI, under the procedural supervision of the Prosecutor General’s Office and the Kyiv City Prosecutor's Office, as well as under the operational support of the SSU.