NABU specifically reacted to the scandal with Kryvonos's fictitious paternity: it forbade subordinates to comment – journalist Dmytrenko
Kyiv • UNN
The Bureau's leadership threatens dismissal for comments about Semen Kryvonos's adoption of a child. The NABU director allegedly used adoption to avoid prison.
The NABU leadership has forbidden employees from commenting on the scandal involving the fictitious adoption of a child by the Bureau's head, Kryvonos. Anyone who violates this ban faces dismissal. This was reported by journalist Dmytro Dmytrenko in a report about NABU, according to UNN.
"According to our data, after attempts to get a statement from the Bureau's leadership, it forbade employees, under threat of dismissal, from providing any comments regarding the scandal with Kryvonos's fictitious adoption of a child," the report states.
Journalists recalled the scandal involving NABU Director Semen Kryvonos, who was previously tried for voter bribery. To avoid imprisonment, he fictitiously adopted a child, they reported.
"As soon as the threat of prison disappeared, Kryvonos quickly renounced paternity. The child's mother publicly spoke about this. According to her, all the boy received from his temporary father was a children's bicycle. And even that Kryvonos did not buy, only contributed part of the sum," the report emphasizes.
In general, the authors of the material noted, the temporary father did not mention his son in his declaration and generally concealed this fact of his biography.
In the report, journalist Dmytro Dmytrenko tries to get comments from NABU employees in front of the Bureau's building. However, questions such as "Do you consider this worthy of the head of NABU?", "How do you feel about voter bribery?", "Is it possible to fictitiously adopt children to deceive the court and then abandon them?" remained unanswered.
As reported, the director of the National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine (NABU), Semen Kryvonos, was found guilty of voter bribery in 2009 but avoided punishment through amnesty because he had a minor son, Maksym, born in 2008, in his care. The child's mother, Svitlana Khomchenko, whom Kryvonos found through intermediaries, confirmed the information about his fictitious paternity.
Subsequently, Kryvonos misled the court: in his statement to cancel the fictitious paternity, he stated that he was sure it was his son. However, Maksym's mother, Svitlana Khomchenko, said that there had been no relationship between her and Kryvonos.