Artem Sytnyk explained how NABU managed to survive.
Employees of the National Anti-Corruption Bureau worked in an aggressive environment for all seven years, where both the prosecutor's office and the police tried to catch them” hot. ” This was stated by NABU ex-director Artem Sytnyk.
“On the one hand – 700 people working in NABU. On the other hand – 20 thousand in the SBU, 10 thousand – in the prosecutor's office, even more people in the police. And all these bodies, frankly, were hunting for our employees to detain someone “hot”. Nobody succeeded. People could not realize and accept that NABU has a different ideology. And this difference in values determined the aggressive environment in which we had to work in fact all these 7 years, “- said Sitnik.
He explained that the main reason why NABU has survived is the support of Western partners. According to Sitnik, they saw that the Bureau worked honestly. The NABU ex-director explained that if the Bureau staff were guided by double standards, there would be no such support. However, the most important thing Sytnyk called the team, formed through an open competition of completely different people who were imbued with the ideology of the new body…
“Our detectives are a really cool team. Small, but so powerful that this was probably the reason that our opponents did not succeed. I felt the support of the team as a director. For my part, I tried to create such conditions for the team so that people could work according to the law. From the very beginning, I volunteered to accept all the negativity and all the oppression as a director. And so it turned out. Therefore, a small body set the tone for virtually the entire law enforcement system of Ukraine. We see everyone complaining: “We have everything. Everything is resolved with the police, everything is resolved with others. We can't agree only with NABU, “Sytnyk added.
He stated that NABU had been open to cooperation with other law enforcement agencies from the beginning, but practice had shown that the Bureau could only count on itself. And some cases, if other bodies were involved, would not end in high-profile revelations that demonstrated to society the level of corruption at the highest levels of government.
“We learned to survive, we were even called” Japanese “, because NABU is like an island in the middle of the ocean. Now the country is at war, and the format of interaction has changed. We work closely with the SBU, intelligence and other bodies. But before that there was a powerful sabotage, “Sytnyk summed up.
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It will be recalled that Artem Sytnyk's seven-year term in office ended on April 16. Acting Director of the National Anti-Corruption Bureau became Gizo Uglava .
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