The first deputy director of the NABU, Gizo Uglava, was invited to take a polygraph at the bureau, but he decided to take it elsewhere. This was reported by the director of the anti-corruption bureau Semen Kryvonos at a field meeting of the Verkhovna Rada Committee on Anti-Corruption Policy, UNN reports.
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Uglava is involved in one of the internal investigations into the alleged leakage of information from the NABU. The director of the bureau suspended him from his duties for the duration of the pre-trial investigation.
At the committee meeting, Kryvonos said that several internal investigations were being conducted into the alleged leak and that one of them would be completed soon.
So far, Uglava has not taken a polygraph at the NABU, but he has taken one outside the bureau. He published the results on his Facebook page. According to the results of this polygraph examination, Uglava is allegedly not involved in leaks from NABU.
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This is not the first time NABU detectives have manipulated expert examinations, so the situation with Uglava is no exception. For example, the examinations in the cases of Rotterdam+ and former Infrastructure Minister Volodymyr Omelyan. According to lawyer Iryna Odynets, the NABU lost in court because during the investigation, detectives in these cases "drew" forensic examinations in friendly private offices and then manipulated them. Volodymyr Omelyan himself also noted that detectives engaged "dubious experts" during the investigation of the case against him.
In addition, NABU recently tried to leak an expert opinion in the case against former Minister of Agrarian Policy Mykola Solsky, which they themselves ordered and which was apparently supposed to testify to Solsky's innocence.