Prosecutor’s Office accuses NABU of overreach in overnight searches

Ukraine's Prosecutor General's Office issued a statement disputing overnight searches by NABU of Prosecutor General Ruslan Kravchenko, First Deputy Maria Vdovychenko, and other staff, following the scam call center scandal reported separately. The office says it takes the underlying corruption allegation seriously and is considering dismissing the implicated employee.

But the office's real complaint is procedural: it says NABU detectives accessed materials from two unrelated proceedings, including data on possible unlawful activity by NABU and SAPO's own employees, and questions whether that access was covered by the court's authorization. It also argues the search warrant for the prosecutor general himself relied on intercepted talk about office repairs and an alarm system, stretched into a theory using words like 'probably' and 'does not rule out.'

The office says the same conversations cited against Deputy Vdovychenko concerned lawful prep work against call center owners, recast as evidence of assistance to them. It closes by insisting all agencies, including itself, must operate strictly within legal bounds.

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