Mahamedrasulov Claims Theft During Searches
Ruslan Maghamedrasulov, head of the detective unit of the National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine (NABU), who participated in the investigation of the Timur Mindich case and was recently released from custody, claims that 2,500 euros were stolen from him during the searches and detention.
According to him, he left this amount in his apartment in Dnipro after a vacation - and after searches conducted by employees of the Security Service of Ukraine and the Prosecutor General's Office, no one from his family "saw the money again." When asked by the host whether Maghamedrasulov believed that it was stolen during the searches, the detective answered in the affirmative.
They searched my house at all possible addresses. In Kyiv, in Dnipro. The only thing they found was two and a half thousand euros, which are not in the protocols, and they are also missing. This is all the money that was found
He also said that the photos of several Russian banknotes and Russian passports allegedly taken during the searches of his apartment, which the host asked him about, "were not from his searches" and that he knew nothing about their origin. In his opinion, this is further confirmation that the case was created artificially and the evidence base was fabricated.
According to Magamedrasulov, his family was monitored "covertly and openly" for the purpose of psychological pressure, and they were also detained, searched, and used physical force against contacts found in his phone in order to obtain the necessary statements from them.
As a reminder, on July 21, the SSU announced Maghamedrasulov's suspicion of preparing to "accomplice an aggressor state." According to the investigation, he and his father, 65-year-old farmer from Donbas, Sentyabr Maghamedrasulov, wanted to sell industrial hemp seeds to Dagestan. Both Maghamedrasulovs were arrested. They denied the charges.
The detective admitted that he really helped his father sell seeds, but not to Russia, but to Uzbekistan. In his opinion, the SSU fabricated the case to intimidate him and other NABU employees. According to Magamedrasulov, he organized a wiretap in the apartment of the co-owner of the "Kvartal 95" studio, Timur Mindich, and the authorities decided to imprison him to hinder the investigation of corruption schemes involving the president's entourage.
On November 11, NABU charged Mindich and his alleged accomplices with large-scale embezzlement in the energy sector. On November 29, the head of the President's Office, Andriy Yermak, resigned. A few days later, the courts released Ruslan and Sentyabr Maghamedrasulov from pretrial detention.
We also reported that NABU had announced suspicion against former Deputy Prime Minister Chernyshov.
