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Court finds validity of SSU and PGO materials on NABU officials and places both Bureau officials under arrest

Security Service of Ukraine

18:30, 22 July 2025

After reviewing the materials of the Security Service of Ukraine and the Prosecutor General's Office, the court placed under arrest both NABU officials who were detained yesterday on suspicion of working for russian special services and doing business with russia.

The court chose the most severe measure of restraint for the defendants, recognising the validity of the evidence base collected by the SSU and the PGO against the officials of one of Ukraine's anti-corruption agencies.

The term of detention for both defendants will be 60 days without bail.

Yesterday, the Security Service of Ukraine and the Prosecutor General's Office of Ukraine conducted a joint special operation to neutralise the kremlin's influence on the National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine. During the day, dozens of investigative and procedural actions were taken against the suspects and their associates.

As a result of the comprehensive measures, two current officials of the Bureau were served suspicion notices:

• an employee of the NABU Central Office, who, according to the investigation, works in the most elite closed unit 'D-2' and spied for the russian special service;
• Ruslan Mahamedrasulov, one of the heads of the NABU's Interregional Detective Departments, who, according to the case, has contacts with representatives of the aggressor country and helps his father, an entrepreneur, to conduct illegal trade with russia.

Also, during the documentation of russian influence on the Bureau, the current MP from the now banned OPZZh party, Fedir Khrystenko, was served with a suspicion in absentia.

According to the investigation, this MP was a top russian fsb agent (resident) and was responsible for strengthening russian influence on the National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine (NABU).

One of his contacts was the head of the NABU's detective unit, Oleksandr Skomarov, with whom Khrystenko is in close contact. In 2022, during a full-scale invasion, Skomarov's wife was recorded travelling abroad in a car belonging to Khrystenko's wife.

Skomarov participated in the competition for the head of another law enforcement agency of Ukraine - the Bureau of Economic Security. The investigation found that if he won the competition, Ukrainian oligarch Ihor Kolomoiskyi hoped that Skomarov, as the new head of the BES, would help to close the criminal proceedings against him. This information was confirmed by evidence of Kolomoiskyi's correspondence with one of his subordinates.

However, Kolomoiskyi is not the only oligarch whom fsb agent Khrystenko tried to help. It has been documented that NABU detectives helped another Ukrainian businessman, Ihor Kolomoiskyi's business partner, Hennadii Boholiubov, escape.

In particular, two employees of the Bureau, Skomarov's subordinates, accompanied the fugitive oligarch when he crossed the state border of Ukraine: they were in the next compartment of the train "for safety". According to the investigation, the relevant 'special operation' was also organised by Fedir Khrystenko.

During the searches at the residences of Khrystenko, a member of the banned OPZZh party, the investigators found materials from NABU criminal proceedings, including documents on covert surveillance of the suspects, as well as questionnaires of candidates for detectives, which indicates russian influence and systemic leaks of information from the anti-corruption agency.

The suspects have been served suspicion notices under several articles of the Criminal Code of Ukraine in connection with all the facts uncovered:

• Part 1 Article 111 (high treason);
• Part 2 Article 28, Part 1, Part 2 Article 111 (high treason committed by prior conspiracy by a group of persons under martial law);
• Art. 111-2 (aiding and abetting the aggressor state);
• Part 3 Article 362 (unauthorised actions with information processed in electronic computers, automated systems, computer networks or stored on the carriers of such information, committed by a person who has the right to access it);
• Part 2 Article 369-2 (abuse of influence).

Investigations are ongoing to establish all the circumstances of the crimes and bring the perpetrators to justice. The offenders face between 12 years in prison and life imprisonment with confiscation of property.

The operation is conducted under the supervision of the Prosecutor General's Office.