On August 21, the Verkhovna Rada will consider a bill that would protect officials from punishment for corruption.

This was announced by the chairman of the board of the Central Commission for the Protection of Information and Communications Vitaly Shabunin, Censor.NET reports .

“Already on Thursday, the Rada will vote on another scheme to protect the president’s friends from punishment for TOP corruption. Bill #11228-1 amends Article 43 of the Criminal Code: causing harm (including to the state) will NOT be a crime if committed by a person who was performing a counterintelligence task,” the report says.

Shabunin explained how this would work “using the example of Mindich.”

“The SBU appoints the president’s friend as a “confidant” – they formalize participation in confidential cooperation. The SBU can even do this retroactively! When the NABU gets close to the conditional Mindich (for example, for corruption on drones), the SBU will declare that he is an “agent”, revealing his activities will harm national security, and he himself is subject to state protection. That’s it, the corruption of the conditional friend of the president formally ceases to be a crime, the end of the investigation.

“It will be possible to smear, for example, Chernyshov in exactly the same way,” the head of the Central Election Commission explained.

According to Shabunin, the attempt to destroy NABU and SAPO demonstrated Zelensky’s goals – to “save his friends from prison” and “get re-elected without unnecessary scandals.”

Author:  Bohdan Rusinko Джерело: https://censor.net/ua/n3569635

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