Anti-corruption activists, who have consistently backed NABU, now demand its closure and the sale of its building, stating, "The bureau is no longer effective."

The Anti-Corruption Bureau is easier to shut down and sell the building, – wrote anti-corruption activist and journalist from the publication "Our Money," Yuri Nikolov.

“NABU has become very similar to any of the law enforcement agencies, whose goal is not to combat corruption but to brag about metrics that border on the 'counting' of the involved parties. This happens when your case collapses along the way, or they allow you to strike a deal of 'sin-pay-and-sin again'. And you express your gratitude endlessly. Or even worse – NABU has simply forgotten how to work and has lost its predatory instinct, becoming like a local police station that chases flies and counts fines on grandmothers for selling in the subway,” – Nikolov wrote.

He noted that this is evidenced, in particular, by the reaction of the NABU head to another scandal involving a detective who resigned due to conflict and alleged the collapse of cases in the Bureau.

“In recent days, the head of NABU has made several public statements, from which it became clear to me – the Bureau is no longer a cake. And my long-standing jokes about it being easier to shut it down and sell its building contain only a grain of humor,” – Nikolov reported.

The activist pointed out that this refers to yet another scandal in NABU that erupted in January.

“Detective Andrey Denisuk, who was investigating corruption in drone procurement, decided to resign due to issues with the ability to conduct investigations. As a farewell, he wrote a letter to his former colleagues describing the situation. This letter ended up in the media and became the second piece of evidence of problems in NABU after another detective reported a leak of materials last summer. As a result of the summer scandal, the first deputy director of NABU, Gizo Uglava, was suspended from his position,” – he wrote.

Nikolov reminded that the scandal with Detective Denisuk occurred while an international audit was being conducted to check the work of the Bureau's director, Semen Kryvonos.

“So it’s not surprising that the NABU leadership immediately organized a briefing to convince dozens of journalists that it was Denisuk himself who was incompetent and mishandled the investigation. I was also at that briefing – it was a jackal express against a person who dared to expose a huge problem in the Bureau. And all the NABU leadership participated in it – from the director to the heads of the main divisions,” – the journalist concluded.

Previously, political expert Oleg Posternak wrote that the leak of confidential internal information by former NABU detective Denisuk exposed a deep crisis that currently prevails in the Bureau and calls into question the entire anti-corruption system of the state. “The case with Denisuk is a striking example of how one person's lack of professionalism, in a single act, exposed all the chaos, disorder, and lawlessness in an agency that was supposed to be a model of Ukrainian anti-corruption. But it never became that,” – the expert emphasized.

As reported, the State Bureau of Investigations registered a criminal case against NABU director Semen Kryvonos and his deputy Polina Lysenko for fraud during the competition for leadership positions in one of the Bureau's departments.