The Polish court took into custody for three months former acting head of the State Agency of Automobile Roads of Ukraine (Ukravtodor) Slawomir Nowak, and two of his accomplices, the press service of the National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine (NABU) said.
“The Ukravtodor case: on July 22, 2020, the Warsaw court took into custody for three months the former head of Ukravtodor and two of his accomplices, citizens of Poland, suspected of receiving illegal benefits and legalization,” NABU said on its Twitter page on July 22.
As reported, The National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine (NABU) and the Specialized Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office (SAPO), together with the Central Anti-Corruption Bureau of Poland (CBA) and the District Prosecutor’s Office, are conducting authorized searches in Kyiv, Lviv and on the territory of Poland as part of a joint investigation of the activities of a criminal organization in the road sector.
“In the course of investigative actions in Poland, the former head of Ukravtodor, a citizen of Poland, has been detained on suspicion of committing corruption crimes,” NABU said on Facebook on July 20.
Earlier, Press Secretary of the Minister-Coordinator of Poland’s Special Services Stanislaw Zaryn said on Twitter about the detention on corruption charges of ex-head of Ukraine’s State Agency of Automobile Roads (Ukravtodor) Slawomir Nowak by CBA.
