Head of NABU detectives detained by SBU turns out to be owner of apartment in Odesa

The Security Service of Ukraine and the Prosecutor General's Office detained Ruslan Magamedrasulov, one of the heads of interregional departments of detectives of the National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine, on suspicion of doing business in the Russian Federation.

According to the SBU press service, the man worked in Dnipro and coordinated the Bureau's activities in the frontline regions of Ukraine (Dnipro and Zaporizhzhia), while having contacts with representatives of the aggressor country and helping his father, an entrepreneur, to conduct illegal trade with the Russian Federation.

In particular, according to the investigation, he acted as an intermediary in the sale of his father's batches of industrial hemp to Russia (Republic of Dagestan). The SBU is also checking information about Ruslan Magamedrasulov's contacts with Russian special services and the transfer of secret information to them, in particular, about planned investigative actions.

According to the investigation, this high-ranking official of the Bureau maintained close contact with the fugitive MP from the banned OPFL party, Fedir Khrystenko, who is associated with the Russian special services and, as the investigation established, has a significant influence on the NABU's activities.

In his declaration for 2024, the NABU official indicated that during the full-scale invasion, he became the owner of three apartments in Bulgaria and Kyiv, as well as a 2022 Tesla Model Y. He purchased the car in 2023, the apartment in Bulgaria in July 2022, and the apartment in Kyiv in 2024. In addition, in January 2022, he acquired ownership of an unfinished apartment in Odesa with an area of 30.2 square meters.

During the pre-trial investigation, it was also established that Ruslan Magamedrasulov's father, September Magamedrasulov, has Russian citizenship, but the NABU official did not indicate this fact when applying for access to state secrets, which violated the law.

As for the suspect's mother, Iryna Magamedrasulova, she lives in Kyiv but receives a pension in the so-called DNR and posts pro-Russian comments on social media, including in groups with the Z-symbol. The SBU has evidence that in her conversations she actively supports Putin's war against Ukraine and justifies the war crimes of the Nazis.

Although Ruslan Magamedrasulov, as one of the heads of the NABU's Interregional Detective Department, was supposed to be stationed in Dnipro and responsible for work in the frontline regions, he was almost constantly in Kyiv and recently returned from an elite vacation on the island of Tenerife, where he had spent several weeks.

The issue of serving a notice of suspicion to the high-ranking official of the National Anti-Corruption Bureau under Art. 111-2 (aiding the aggressor state) of the Criminal Code of Ukraine is currently being decided.

Кирило Бойко