As it became known from his own sources, the head of the SAPO Alexander Klimenko has found a “witness” who will testify against the First Deputy Director of NABU Gizo Uglava in the case of information leaks from the bureau regarding persons involved in the investigations.
According to the publication, this “witness” will be the head of the Second Division of NABU detectives, Alexander Skomarov, over whom the SAP has leverage due to the criminal case against his sister.
“In June, it became known that those involved in criminal cases allegedly received data from NABU, in particular, it was about the ideologist of the “Great Budivnytsia” Yuriy Golik, to whom the first deputy director of NABU Gizo Uglava allegedly leaked data.
Despite the fact that the official investigation has not yet been completed, anti-corruption activists have already identified Uglav as the culprit, who, in turn, took a polygraph test, which confirmed that he was not involved in the leaks,” Oboz recalled the course of the leak scandal.
Investigative journalist Denis Bigus also came to the conclusion that Uglava was not involved. However, this was not enough for the head of the Anti-Corruption Center Vitaly Shabunin. He continues to demand, without evidence, that the deputy director of NABU be held accountable.
When Gizo Uglava underwent a polygraph examination, at the same time, as he reported, another interview took place - at NABU as part of an official investigation. And this survey, he said, was “simultaneous.”
“Our sources, on condition of anonymity, reported that the second interviewee was the head of the Second Division of NABU detectives, Alexander Skomarov,” the publication writes.
Skomarov, according to Oboz, was hooked by the SAPS because of his sister, who is a defendant in a high-profile case against Vadim Alperin, the famous Odessa “godfather of smuggling,” as President Vladimir Zelensky called him.
“On November 24, 2017, he was detained by NABU detectives while attempting to bribe a Bureau employee in the amount of $800 thousand. A dozen more of his people were also detained, among whom was Skomarov’s sister,” Oboz notes.
To prevent his sister from being arrested, Skomarov acted as her guarantor.
It was this circumstance, as the publication writes, that interested the head of the SAPO Alexander Klimenko, whose goal is to gain influence on the entire anti-corruption system: “In exchange for testimony against Uglava, he (Skomarov – ed.) was offered further career growth and the gradual closure of the case against his sister.”
