The Security Service of Ukraine conducted searches at the residence of a high-ranking official from the National Anti-Corruption Bureau

The Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) has officially confirmed searches at the National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine (NABU).

These are connected to the Russian passport of the father of a high-ranking NABU detective. According to the investigation, the detective conducted joint business with his father.

“The Security Service of Ukraine and the Office of the Prosecutor General uncovered that one of the heads of NABU’s interregional detective departments, Ruslan Magamedrasulov, was conducting business in Russia (specifically in the Republic of Dagestan). The investigation established that he acted as an intermediary in selling batches of industrial hemp grown by his father in Russia,” the statement said.

His father holds Russian citizenship — a fact Magamedrasulov concealed when obtaining access to state secrets. His mother resides in Kyiv but receives a pension from the so-called “DPR” and publishes pro-Russian comments on social media.

Meanwhile, their son works in Dnipro, coordinating NABU’s activities in the frontline regions of Dnipropetrovsk and Zaporizhzhia. He recently returned from a multi-week vacation in Tenerife.

Authorities are also verifying information about Magamedrasulov’s contacts with Russian intelligence services and whether he passed them classified information, including details on planned investigative operations.

The Anti-Corruption Action Center (AntAC) commented that the authorities are beginning an operation to “neutralize NABU,” referencing the morning’s mass searches of detectives.

AntAC stated that if court hearings on pre-trial restrictions for NABU officials are held behind closed doors, “it will mean that this is purely manipulation and an attempt to discredit the Bureau, which recently implicated Chernyshov, a person close to the President.”

AntAC also recalled that the SBU previously conducted mass searches of NABU employees in 2017.

NABU itself claims that the current searches are being carried out without a court order.