“The President is silent. But according to some information, he has already met personally with Chaus twice. This information needs to be verified, it appeared quite recently,” the ex-prosecutor general said.
The fact of the meeting of Zelensky and Chaus on Facebook also reported People’s Deputy Geo Leros, expelled from the Servant of the People faction.
“After the ‘unknowns’ kidnapped Judge Chaus from Moldova, he told the staff that he would only speak with Zelensky. And guess what happened? : This happened before Chaus was officially found! Now you understand why the SBU does not give him to anyone? I have this information from a reliable, trusted source, “the People’s Deputy wrote.
Information about Zelensky’s meeting with the ex-judge on Facebook denied press secretary of the head of state Sergei Nikiforov.
“The President of Ukraine did not meet with Judge Chaus,” he briefly responded.
Chausa is suspected of bribery in Ukraine. September 6, 2016 Verkhovna Rada removed immunity from him, later Solomensky court authorized his detention… In Ukraine, Chaus faces imprisonment for a term of eight to 12 years.
November 2016 Chaus was put on the international wanted list… On May 26, 2021, the media reported that his removed from the international wanted list.
In March 2017, it became known that Chaus detained in Chisinau… He tried to get political asylum in Moldova. A decision on this issue was expected at the end of April 2021. Ukrainian authorities sought the extradition of Chaus.
April 3, 2021 Chausa kidnapped in the center of Chisinau… According to the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the country, the ex-judge was kidnapped by a group of people who left the territory of Moldova across the border with Ukraine… The abductors corresponded in Ukrainian. Two suspects Moldovan law enforcement officers managed to detain.
NABU and the National Police of Ukraine announced on April 5 that know nothing about the kidnapping… Later, the SBU reported that are investigating the kidnapping and illegal transfer of the ex-judge across the border.
On July 30 it became known that Chausa found in a village in Vinnytsia region.
At NABU, which has been investigating the Chaus case since 2016, at first asked to tell them the ex-judge, and by evening NABU special forces blocked exits from the SBU office in Kiev on Vladimirskaya street. The media wrote that employees of the anti-corruption bureau came for Chaus.
On July 31, the SBU said that did not kidnap Chaus… According to the intelligence service, a person contacted the SBU hotline and said that a man had arrived at one of the village councils of the Vinnitsa region and introduced himself as Nikolai Chaus. According to the press center, Chaus asked to call the security personnel. The SBU also recalled that since May 2021, the service’s investigators have been investigating the case of the abduction of Chaus and his illegal transfer across the state border.
Chaus’s lawyer Rostislav Kravets was able to get a meeting with him only on August 1. According to Kravets, the ex-judge “has not yet been detained and is really under the protection of the SBU“.
Supreme Anti-Corruption Court on August 1 began consideration of the NABU application about the choice of a preventive measure for Chaus in custody, but since there was no suspect, the meeting was postponed until 2 pm on 4 August.
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