Saturday22 February 2025
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The head of the CPC announced that his first commander has been served with a suspicion notice.

Vitaliy Shabunin, the head of the NGO "Center for Combating Corruption," announced that the State Bureau of Investigations has issued a notice of suspicion to his former commander – the battalion commander of the Kyiv Territorial Defense, where Shabunin claims he was mobilized in the early days of the war.
Глава ЦПК сообщил, что его первому командиру было предъявлено подозрение.

Source: Head of the CPC on Telegram

Direct quote from Shabunin: "The GDB claims that my former commander had the intent to gain an unlawful benefit of a non-material nature for himself by utilizing his connections with Shabunin V.V."

I am not joking – this is precisely what the GDB is accusing my former commander of. However, the GDB does not specify what exactly this "unlawful benefit of a non-material nature" refers to.

Details: Shabunin added that, according to the GDB, allegedly for the "implementation of this intent," the commander approved a business trip for him to the NACP, which "is located far from the combat zones," and that this provided the head of the CPC the opportunity to avoid fulfilling the combat tasks of the military unit.

"The suspicion against my commander was brought to him by the GDB yesterday (February 20 – ed.) directly in the military hospital – on the day I left Kyiv for my new posting," he wrote.

Shabunin believes that this was allegedly the reason they wanted to "hurry him out of the capital."

"The suspicion is as legally weak as the GDB and the prosecutor's office are dependent on Ermak/Tatarov. It is obvious that they are simply pressuring (or intimidating) my commander," wrote the head of the CPC.

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