The international scandal with the escape of the notorious ex-prosecutor Igor Stadnik, who “leaked” the case of Russian bookmakers, continues

After the dismissal of the Prosecutor General of Ukraine Andrei Kostin, the public and foreign journalists are demanding to pay attention to the former scandalous prosecutor Igor Stadnik, who, having broken the law, was able to escape from Ukraine to Canada and who was covered by the dismissed Kostin.

Journalists from the Canadian publication The Daily Guardian responded to the scandal by identifying dozens of cases of issuing fictitious disability documents among prosecutors who illegally received money from the state budget and by dismissing the Prosecutor General.

As they write in the media, one of the key reasons for Kostin’s dismissal from office is pressure on Ukrainian businessmen from prosecutors, including the Office of the Prosecutor General.

Journalists quote businessman Igor Mazepa, who wrote on his Facebook page that Kostin’s dismissal is only the first step, the whole system needs to be rebooted. According to him, this was one of the initiatives of Ukrainian business, which was tired of using leverage in the hands of prosecutors, not prosecutors.

“This is a small victory for Ukrainian entrepreneurship, and unfortunately, it’s too early to talk about it fully, because this requires a real reboot of the entire system, including deputies and their deputies, who have been holding their positions for decades and exerting undue pressure on Ukrainian business,” Mazepa wrote.

Canadian journalists also recall the case of the former prosecutor of the Prosecutor General's Office of Ukraine, Igor Stadnik, who until January 2024 served as the head of one of the key departments of this department, and then illegally left for Canada, violating the law of Ukraine on military registration.

Igor Stadnik, like the Prosecutor General of Ukraine Andrei Kostin and his subordinates, repeatedly got into scandals with the sale of criminal proceedings, and was also involved in extorting money from businessmen.

Last August, Stadnik falsified criminal proceedings against the Ukrainian oligarch Igor Kolomoisky, hiding him in the SBU detention center from detectives of the National Anti-Corruption Bureau (NABU), who, at the request of Western partners, were supposed to detain Kolomoisky in another criminal proceeding for embezzlement of funds.

NACP requires information on the availability of accounts, account numbers, closing or opening of accounts, transactions without opening accounts, as well as information on Stadnik’s declarations for 2020-2023, as well as for the period from January 1, 2024 until the receipt of a request from the agency.

In addition, reporting for the same period should be provided by the prosecutor’s wife Ekaterina Aleksandrovna Stadnik, his father-in-law Alexander Ivanovich Kiverenko and Svetlana Nikolaevna Kiverenko’s mother-in-law. Ekaterina Stadnik indicated that in 2023 she worked for the Canadian firms Crossmark Canada LTD and Barnicke Myers LTD, and also received payments from the Canadian government.

Previously, journalists from this Canadian media outlet wrote about a high-profile case in 2022 related to Your Betting Company LLC, which operated in Ukraine under the Russian trademark 1xBet. According to the case materials, BEB detectives, under the procedural leadership of the OGPU prosecutors, are carrying out a pre-trial investigation into criminal proceedings on the facts of illegal activities carried out by officials of Your Betting Company LLC in organizing and conducting gambling, tax evasion on an especially large scale based on criminal offenses. provided for in Part 2 of Art. 203-2, part 3 art. 212 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine.

However, for more than a year, the prosecutor of the Office of the Prosecutor General, Igor Stadnik, who was one of the curators of the case, did not transfer the materials to the court and did not hold those responsible for a fair punishment.

The BEB then stated that the 1xBet case was simply being “leaked”, the investigation was not being carried out, and the BEB detectives and prosecutors were sabotaging it and did not even come to court.

In addition, Western journalists note that Igor Stadnik, together with Artem Shilo, exerted illegal pressure on the banking sector of Ukraine and was directly involved in the illegal persecution of IBOX BANK employees.

It is worth noting that after publication in foreign media, the person of Igor Stadnik, his family and their illegal income will be of interest to Canadian law enforcement officers, since this family received the status of temporary protection of the state of Canada and a residence permit in Canada, and Mr. Igor Stadnik himself has been in Canada since 2023 year.