“According to the investigation, in the period from February 10 to September 18, 2025, lawyers, having entered into a criminal conspiracy with the OGPU prosecutor, suggested that a suspect in one of the NABU cases resolve the issue of closing it by bribing officials of the Specialized Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office and the High Anti-Corruption Court,” the report says.
The defendants in the case seemed to want to become intermediaries in the transfer of money, and the bribe amount was initially $2 million.
“A detailed plan was developed that provided for the transfer of illegal benefits in parts. At the time of exposure by NABU detectives, the prosecutor and lawyers managed to receive $200 thousand from the suspect,” the bureau explained.
The law enforcement agency noted that the pre-trial investigation is being conducted under Part 2 of Art. 15, part 4 art. 27, part 4 art. 369 (complicity in an attempt to offer, promise or provide an unlawful benefit to an official) of the Criminal Code of Ukraine.
Later, NABU reported that suspicions were announced to the OGPU prosecutor and the lawyers involved in the case, and the prosecutor and one lawyer were detained.
“The involvement of other prosecutors from the Office of the Prosecutor General in the crime is also being established,” the bureau said.
The Office of the Prosecutor General stated on Telegram that NABU conducted searches of two OGPU prosecutors based on the decision of VAKS.
The office noted. that the court decision mentions their employee with an “unspecified” role, whose home and workplace were searched by NABU detectives.
“No things or documents of procedural significance have been seized. At the same time, the said prosecutor is part of a group of prosecutors investigating criminal proceedings, within which facts of possible illegal activities of NABU detectives are being investigated, in particular the head of one of the interregional departments of NABU detectives [Руслана] Magamedrasulov, who is suspected of aiding the aggressor country,” writes the OGPU.
The department considers it a “strange coincidence” that “it is in the midst of this investigation that actions begin against the prosecutor that raise reasonable doubts about their objectivity.”
“There is a risk of conflict of interest and selective use of investigative mechanisms on the part of NABU detectives and SAPO prosecutors. This leaves serious questions about the real motives of the investigation and the impartiality of its participants,” the office said.
Subsequently, the OGPU made another post in which it explained that “the OGPU prosecutor is suspected of mediating the transfer of a bribe in the amount of $3.5 million to the VAKS judges.”
“He himself could not demand or close the case, since he is not the procedural leader in it,” the office emphasized.
The OGPU admitted that the prosecutor who was charged with suspicion “was never part of the group of prosecutors exercising procedural leadership in the proceedings on suspicion of a NABU official.”
The Office of the Prosecutor General also stated that he “fully contributes to the investigation carried out by NABU and SAPO to ensure its legality, objectivity and transparency.”
Another prosecutor, whom NABU does not mention in its releases (there is only “establishment of the involvement of other prosecutors in the crime”), but about whom the OGPU writes, allegedly had his mobile phone confiscated after a search.
“It is obvious that conducting a search of the prosecutor who worked on the case of a NABU official and confiscating his mobile phone carries risks of access to information that may be an important evidence base in this proceeding,” the Office of the Prosecutor General believes.
