NABU detectives ignored interrogation of defense witnesses in ex-Minister Solskyi case - lawyers appeal to HACC

Lawyers in the case of former Minister Mykola Solsky complained to the court against NABU detectives who, in their opinion, ignored the interrogation of defense witnesses. This is stated in the court decisions, UNN reports.

The High Anti-Corruption Court ruled to open proceedings based on the lawyers' complaint  and scheduled its consideration for August 5. However, immediately after the lawyers appealed to the court, NABU detectives nevertheless considered a motion to interrogate defense witnesses.  

We would like to add that these are not the only manipulations of NABU detectives in this case. 

Earlier, anti-corruption activists tried to "leak" and annul the examination that they themselves had ordered, and which was apparently supposed to testify to Solsky's innocence.

We remind you that the investigation in the case has been going on for 5 years, the reasonable timeframe has been exhausted, but NABU continues to "drag its feet" and now plans to interrogate more than a thousand ATO soldiers, most of whom are defending the country at the front.  

ATO soldiers, in turn , are outraged by the actions of the NABU. 

As previously reported, the NABU accused former Minister Mykola Solsky  of assisting ATO veterans in privatizing land plots in Sumy region eight years ago. According to the detectives, the land was used by the National Agrarian Academy (NAAS) and could not be privatized. 

However, the version of the detectives was refuted by the Supreme Court, which ruled that the National Academy of Sciences had no rights to these lands, as well as by expertswho studied the historical chronology of these lands from the 50s of the last century and also emphasized that these lands could not have been included in the land bank of the National Academy of Sciences. 

Probably, for a long time, the NAAS could use the land that it had squatted and considered to be its own. This is evidenced, in particular, by the materials of some criminal proceedings, where NAAS employees were accused of squatting on the land incriminated to Solsky and ATO veterans. The NAAS leased these lands to farmers in a hidden lease to grow their crops, although this is expressly prohibited. 

So now the main intrigue of the NABU case against former Minister Solsky is whether detectives will be able to prove their assumption that the land was indeed used by the National Academy of Sciences. If they can't, which is highly likely , the former minister will be acquitted.  As, by the way, former Minister Volodymyr Omelyan was acquitted. His detectives accused him of reducing port fees, which allegedly led to budget losses. However, all of NABU's arguments, even those that were announced publicly, proved to be worthless in the High Anti-Corruption Court and had no causal connection.  All three instances of the court ruled that Omelyan was not guilty. However, SAPO detectives and prosecutors, who were supposed to oversee the legality of the actions of NABU detectives, never publicly apologized to the former minister.