Instead of tackling corruption, NABU detectives will monitor weather conditions.

The National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine (NABU) will spend over 50,000 hryvnias on the purchase of three portable weather stations. This information is available on the Prozorro website, as reported by UNN.

For three Kestrel 5000 portable weather stations, the anti-corruption agency will pay 56,700 hryvnias.

It raises the question of whether weather stations are truly among the priority tools for the anti-corruption agency's operations. After all, the main task of NABU detectives is to combat corruption, not to monitor weather conditions.

The anti-corruption bureau is engaging in the procurement of equipment that is not directly related to fighting corruption, while detectives are "drowning" in cases that have been under investigation for decades.

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The public has repeatedly pointed out that NABU is wasting state resources and time on cases that are not critically important and have questionable judicial prospects.

For instance, Ekaterina Datsenko, a representative of the Public Control Council (PCC) at NABU, made a loud statement regarding the low effectiveness of detectives in investigating corruption in the defense sector. According to her, a significant increase in corruption cases in the defense sector was expected with the onset of full-scale war. However, as of now, only 48 criminal proceedings are underway, with suspicions reported against just 7 individuals.

International experts who assessed the work of the detectives have also noted that NABU is spending time and resources on cases with dubious prospects.

A clear example is the case against former Minister of Infrastructure Volodymyr Omelyan. Almost three years were spent investigating this case, which ultimately resulted in an acquittal from the High Anti-Corruption Court (HACC). Notably, neither NABU detectives nor SAP prosecutors faced any public apologies to Omelyan or penalties for unlawfully bringing him to criminal responsibility.

A similar situation may now repeat with former minister Mykola Solskyi, who was publicly accused by NABU and SAP in May of land appropriation land. The issue is not that Solskyi personally seized the land, but rather that he assisted ATO fighters in formalizing land plots that, according to detectives, should have gone to other parties, particularly to be auctioned by the State Property Fund for land sales.

This case is already eight years old, reasonable investigation periods have long been exhausted, yet detectives decided to announce suspicions this year. Upcoming plans include interrogating nearly one and a half thousand ATO fighters.

Simultaneously, NABU has recently been embroiled in internal disputes with its former first deputy head, Gizo Uglava, accusing him of violations in the performance of his direct duties. Uglava, in turn, claimed that NABU is a politically biased agency under the influence of external parties. Details of the scandal can be found here.