NABU on the 'Carthage' case: only the 'tip of the iceberg' of the materials has been made public

What NABU stated

The head of the detectives unit of the National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine, Oleksandr Abakumov, said on Facebook (the owner company Meta has been recognized as extremist in Russia and banned) that far from all materials in the 'Carthage' case have been published — only the 'tip of the iceberg.' According to him, the bureau showed only what it could show without harming the interests of the investigation. 'A significant part of the materials cannot yet be made public. And believe me, the darkest part of this corruption iceberg still remains underwater,' Abakumov wrote, as reported by Gazeta.Ru.

Course of the investigation and reactions

On November 4, at the start of the operation, it was reported that NABU was conducting about 70 searches in the case of bribes for covering up fraudulent call centers; among those involved are senior Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) officers. The head of the special service, Vasyl Malyuk's successor Oleksandr Poklad, dismissed two senior officerswho became figures in the investigation, and some Ukrainian police officers were suspended from work after the searches. A political reaction followed as well: member of the Verkhovna Rada Yaroslav Zhelezniak accused President Volodymyr Zelensky of failing to react to the new investigation. Abakumov's statement shows that the investigation is ongoing and that the publicly released materials are only a fragment of what the investigators have gathered; the scale of further disclosures and possible new figures involved remain unknown.