Poroshenko's ally was summoned for questioning in a high-profile corruption case
The National Anti-Corruption Bureau summoned Poroshenko's close associate and deputy head of the BPP faction Igor Kononenko and businessmen Grigory and Igor Surkis for questioning, a PolyTnavigator correspondent reports.
NABU reported this to Radio Liberty journalists; the dates of the interrogation were not specified.
Earlier, journalists from the program “Schemes: Corruption in Detail” (a joint project of Radio Liberty and the UA: First TV channel) published recordings of telephone conversations with the participation of Presidential ally Kononenko and the Surkis brothers, in which they discussed a scheme to withdraw hundreds of millions of hryvnia from state-owned regional power companies.
“Taking into account the information presented in the investigation, the National Bureau summoned for questioning the persons mentioned in the relevant story, including I.V. Kononenko, G.M. Surkis, I.R. Surkis,” says NABU’s response to the request journalists from Radio Liberty.
After the release of the investigation “P. gave the go-ahead,” the editors, at the request of NABU, handed over to the detectives recordings of conversations between Dmitry Kryuchkov and Igor Kononenko and the Surkis brothers - they were later added to the materials of the official investigation.
The editors received recordings of conversations in the spring-summer of 2015, in which businessman and ex-chair of the board of the Energoset company Kryuchkov, whom NABU is now looking for for withdrawing hundreds of millions of hryvnia from Zaporozhyeoblenergo, discusses the scheme.
To verify telephone conversations, Schemes handed over samples to American specialists from the National Center for Media Expertise, a research and educational center at the University of Colorado in Denver, created with the support of the US Department of Justice.
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