Former prosecutor of the Specialized Anti-Corruption Prosecutor's Office (SAPO) Stanislav Bronytskyi made a series of public statements regarding the internal situation in anti-corruption bodies. According to him, despite the public success of the "Midas" operation, systemic conflicts, non-transparent practices, and informal communications persist within SAPO and NABU. He reported this on his TG channel.
He emphasizes that some information about the progress of NABU and SAPO special operations systematically appears in the public domain earlier than even individual detectives and prosecutors can get acquainted with it.
According to him, NABU and SAPO have informal contacts with third parties, including public figures. They travel together internationally at the expense of international donors, participate in secret meetings of anti-corruption bodies, develop "reforms" and draft laws under supervision and for a separate fee, help with media attacks on undesirable individuals, and informally address SAPO leadership with "Sasha, deal with it" regarding their personal issues.
Bronytskyi sharply criticizes the heads of NABU and SAPO, claiming that they have gone beyond the procedural law, turning the activities of the bodies into an online show without results. After all, many high-profile investigations begin, and very few end in convictions. The European Commission also points this out in its report, he quotes: "NABU and SAPO maintain a relatively low overall level of cases ending in acquittal or dismissal, and are stepping up their efforts in pre-trial investigations, but NABU needs to focus more on investigations with significant consequences."
He also notes that information leaks did not stop after personnel changes, particularly after the dismissal of Gizo Uglava from NABU and Andriy Synyuk from SAPO, and therefore the matter is not with them, Bronytskyi insists.
He emphasizes that no employee of anti-corruption bodies can organize information leaks without the knowledge of the leadership. Therefore, all actions to disseminate pre-trial investigation data, in his opinion, are generated by NABU Director Semen Kryvonos and SAPO Head Oleksandr Klymenko, particularly in the case of Timur Mindich.
Stanislav Bronytskyi resigned from SAPO amid a scandal regarding an agreement with businessman Borys Kaufman concerning the international Odesa airport. He was the prosecutor in this case and believed that there was sufficient evidence to send the case to court, but SAPO head Oleksandr Klymenko decided to sign a plea bargain with the businessman. Under this agreement, Kaufman returned only half of the damages, and the airport itself remained within the orbit of his private structures. The agreement itself is classified.