EU pledges support for anti-corruption efforts after meeting with NABU and SAPO heads. PHOTO

On Friday, 21 August, ambassadors of European Union member states met with National Anti-Corruption Bureau Director Semen Kryvonos and Specialized Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office Head Oleksandr Klymenko.

This was stated in a post by the EU Delegation in Kyiv on X, Censor.NET reports.

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The meeting took place at the EU Delegation building. The EU Delegation described it as "open and constructive."

"The EU will continue to provide strong support for Ukraine’s anti-corruption efforts as the country advances on its path towards the EU," the statement said.

The meeting took place amid NABU and SAPO’s exposure of a corporate raiding scheme. Those implicated in Operation Forest Gump attempted to seize real estate and other assets by interfering with the Ministry of Justice’s networks.

Operation "Forrest Gump"

It was previously reported that NABU and SAPO were conducting a special operation aimed at exposing a criminal group involving MPs and senior Presidential Office officials.
According to media reports, NABU and SAPO were conducting searches involving Deputy Head of the Office of the President Iryna Mudra as part of the announced operation.
NABU detectives also conducted searches involving Hladyshchenko, chair of the Sense Bank supervisory board.
Vadym Stolar, an MP from the court-banned Opposition Platform – For Life party, confirmed that NABU and SAPO were searching his property as part of Operation "Forrest Gump."
NABU later said the case involved UAH 150 million in cash, which, according to the investigation, was channelled through a series of shell-company accounts and brought into legal circulation to post bail for one of the defendants in the Midas case.
Former deputy head of the Presidential Office Iryna Mudra later confirmed that searches had been conducted at her home on August 19, that she had been served with a notice of suspicion and a motion seeking a preventive measure, but that she had not been detained. She is preparing for a court hearing.
On 20 August, NABU released new recordings of conversations involving figures in the Forest Gump case—the second part of the investigation, titled Themis. The case concerns a scheme to seize real estate and other assets through unauthorised interference with the Ministry of Justice’s information (automated) networks.
On 20 August, a prosecutor from the Specialized Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office (SAPO) named all the individuals mentioned in connection with NABU’s Forest Gump and Themis operations.