Head of Ukraine’s Special Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office (SAPO) Nazar Kholodnytsky has said recordings made secretly in his office were compiled, and the criminal case against him involves divulging information from a pretrial investigation – which is not a high crime.
Before arriving on April 3 to the Prosecutor General’s Office (PGO) for interrogation, Kholodnytsky told journalists that formally he would be asked to identify voices on the tapes “are already in the public domain.”
Kholodnytsky said the PGO department conducting the interrogation has “a number of questions, which pertain to three criminal cases involving embezzlement.”
“I have questions about the objectively of the case, which is registered pursuant to an article about divulging information about a pretrial investigation. This is not a serious crime. I simply want to explain the circumstances,” he said.
Kholodnytsky said it would be proper to remove him as SAPO chief during the investigation. He added that the recordings might contain non-normative expressions, about which he is sorry.
