Uglava wins a court case against Shabunin and the AntAC

28 January 14:48

Former first deputy director of the National Anti-Corruption Bureau (NABU) Gizo Uglava has won a court case on “defense of honor and dignity” against the Anti-Corruption Action Center (AntAC) and its head Vitaliy Shabunin. Uglava announced this on his Facebook page, Komersant ukrainskyi reports.

The Kyiv Court of Appeal upheld the decision of the Pechersk District Court of Kyiv, which obliges the Anti-Corruption Action Center (AntAC) and its head Vitaliy Shabunin to publicly refute false information about Gizo Uglava.

Uglava said that the court found the allegations of the AntAC and Shabunin to be unreliable. In particular, the accusation that Uglava allegedly

  • “leaked” information to the defendants in criminal proceedings;
  • “failed” a polygraph examination.

The court concluded that these allegations were not supported by any evidence. As Uglava noted:

“The AntAC and Vitaliy Shabunin did not provide any evidence of their allegations. Therefore, their appeal was dismissed, and the decision of the court of first instance was upheld.”

According to the court ruling, the AntAC and Shabunin must publicly refute the information they disseminated. The full text of the court decision will be available in five days.

As reported by Kommersant UkrayinskyKomersant.Info , detectives of the National Anti-Corruption Bureau are writing massive reports on their management.

Sources of Kommersant Ukrayinsky Komersant.Info 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 began to be 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 May 22, the Specialized Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office conducted searches at the home of an 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 Specialized Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office explained earlier, one and a half billion hryvnias disappeared during the Big Construction project. The case concerns the former head of the Dnipropetrovs’k 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 dismissed his first deputy, Gizo Uglava, to ensure an “objective pre-trial investigation” launched over the alleged information leak.

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: Medal of Honor, Order of Honor, and Order of the Shining Star.

In 2015, Uglava received 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 this proceeding was a form of pressure on the organization and explained that Uglava automatically lost his Georgian citizenship when he received Ukrainian citizenship.

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