The former Minister of infrastructure and a member of Poroshenko's party, Volodymyr Omelyan, tried to avoid a criminal case for illicit enrichment through his political connections. According to investigative journalist Volodymyr Boyko, this is evidenced by NABU materials, UNN writes.
In particular, detectives recorded a conversation between the then head of the Specialized Anti-Corruption Prosecutor's Office, Nazar Kholodnytskyi and MP from the Voice party (and now the head of the Verkhovna Rada Committee on Freedom of Yaroslav Yurchyshyn, the head of the Parliamentary Committee on Freedom of Speech.
"It's a sin not to remember how Yurchyshyn was discussing which officials could be notified of suspicion of committing of corruption crimes and who should not. Here is an excerpt from the minutes on conducting covert investigative (search) actions," Boyko said.
He writes that in the course of of the NSDI, a conversation was recorded between the head of the SAPO Kholodnytskyi and the head of Transparency International Ukraine Yurchyshyn Y.R., which took place on February 16, 2018 in Kholodnytskyi's office:
H. - They have The next three suspects are Omelyan, ...
Y. - On...?
H. - That's what I'm asking. В Omelian's rich father-in-law bought him a house for his daughter, who actually lives in Switzerland. He took the house and registered it in her name. They want to charge him with illicit enrichment because he did not indicate that he lives there and it is actually his house.
Y. - So he didn't mention this house in his did not indicate this house in his declaration?
H. -...They touched Omelyan, they want him now, after Trukhanov, and how he was taken to prison... I will give them what I can give them.
As a reminder, earlier the National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine published the correspondence of the Minister of of Infrastructure Volodymyr Omelyan. This correspondence showed that the official could have deliberately concealed his assets.