Spiegel confirms searches at German residence of former deputy head of Zelenskyy’s Workplace

Regulation enforcement officers have reportedly performed a search on the residence of Rostyslav Shurma, former Deputy Head of the Workplace of the President, in Germany.

Supply: Spiegel

Particulars: "Rostyslav Shurma was Deputy Head of President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s Workplace. On the request of Ukrainian anti-corruption investigators, Bavarian investigators carried out a search at his home within the city of Starnberg (Bavaria)," Spiegel states.

Spiegel reported that the investigative actions came about on 15 July.

In response to Ukrainska Pravda sources, on the identical day, Shurma – who has not appeared in Ukraine since leaving the nation in 2024 – known as a senior official from the Workplace of the President and knowledgeable them that detectives from the Nationwide Anti-Corruption Bureau, along with German regulation enforcement, had performed a search at his residence in a suburb of Munich and seized his telephone.

Spiegel emphasises that the Bavarian investigators searched Shurma’s property in Starnberg based mostly on a mutual authorized help request from the Nationwide Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine.

Background:

  • Earlier, Ukrainska Pravda's sources reported that in mid-July, the Nationwide Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine performed a search at Rostyslav Shurma's residence in a suburb of Munich, Germany. Shurma was the official overseeing your entire financial sector on behalf of President Zelenskyy’s Workplace.
  • In response to Ukrainska Pravda, the search at Shurma’s residence was one of many ultimate straws for President Zelenskyy, who, every week later, publicly accused the Nationwide Anti-Corruption Bureau and the Specialised Anti-Corruption Prosecution’s Workplace of being "ineffective" and signed a regulation considerably limiting the independence of those establishments.

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