The GDB has interrogated a witness in the Shabunin case regarding military service evasion and fake deployments to the NAPC – interrogation protocol.

Media outlets have published the interrogation protocol of a witness in the criminal case against anti-corruption activist Vitaliy Shabunin regarding his evasion of military service and document forgery. These testimonies confirm violations committed by Shabunin, writes "Law and Business."

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In particular, the State Bureau of Investigations (GBR) interrogated journalist Volodymyr Boiko. He serves in the same Territorial Defense brigade as Shabunin and the founder of the charitable foundation, Dmytro Sherembei.

“For the fictitious enlistment of Shabunin V.V. 'retroactively', changes were made to the order of the commander of military unit A7376 (for the troop part) dated 25.02.2022. At the same time, Shabunin did not take the military oath,” the protocol states.

According to military sources, in 2022-2023, Shabunin and Sherembei served fictitiously, receiving salaries and a monthly bonus of 30,000 UAH for performing combat tasks. However, part of the money was given to the commander of the military unit to evade service and live at home. In 2022 alone, Shabunin received financial remuneration “for completing tasks” amounting to 584,000 UAH.

Shabunin and Sherembei are linked through the public organization “Center for Counteracting Corruption,” which they established in 2012. According to Boiko's testimony, initially, they organized paid rallies for pharmaceutical companies and provided cash-out services. Later, the Prosecutor General's Office opened a case regarding the embezzlement of 2.5 million dollars from the accounts of the CPC, which were allocated by the U.S. government for the certification of prosecutor employees.

The interrogation protocol includes a series of evidence demonstrating Shabunin's absence from military service. For instance, in the summer of 2022, he was seen in Zaporizhzhia and later leveraged friendly connections with the leadership of the NAZK, which signed letters regarding his fictitious business trips.

Thus, the anti-corruption activist was residing in Kyiv, where he was frequently spotted in restaurants. Despite allegedly serving in 2022, he declared income from entrepreneurial activities exceeding 1.5 million UAH in 2022 and over 2.2 million UAH in 2023.

At the same time, the interrogation protocol details how Shabunin appropriated a 2005 Nissan Pathfinder, which was imported from abroad as humanitarian aid for the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

Additionally, according to the witness, the anti-corruption activist used his fictitious military service to suspend the investigation of an old criminal case regarding his assault on a journalist in 2017.