Martynenko: Leshchenko and NABU are trying to discredit me

Nikolai Martynenko

Nikolai Martynenko

Nikolai Martynenko (Read more: Nikolai Martynenko: Why is the "nuclear oligarch" being so actively dumped?), who voluntarily resigned from his parliamentary mandate last year in order to "...legally refute the accusations against him without hiding behind immunity...", stated in an interview that all the accusations voiced by Serhiy Leshchenko (which provoked the NABU to intensively "dig" into him) have a clearly political background. Specifically, this refers to Leshchenko's loud statement that: "...Kononenko's people (Read more: Igor Kononenko, the President's Army Buddy), Granovsky, and Martynenko are preparing the ground for further attacks…” Martynenko himself denies all these “attacks,” while insisting that Leshchenko “…is terrified of criminal liability—and with good reason. The corruption scandals surrounding Leshchenko are ruining both his political and journalistic prospects.”

 

In particular, he stated: “The National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine has demonstrated that, together with the SAP of Nazar Kholodnytsky (Read more: Nazar Kholodnitsky. In charge of corruption or in charge of fighting it?) and MP Serhiy Leshchenko falsified the investigation against me. They are also jointly promoting high-profile accusations against me that are purely political. Yesterday, Leshchenko concocted yet another fabrication about my alleged involvement in attacks against him. Meanwhile, the deputies' official appeals to the NABU regarding Leshchenko's apartment corruption are supported by documents signed by the "anti-corruption official" himself. Elite real estate worth several hundred thousand dollars was purchased at half the price, yet Leshchenko has no proof of the origin of these funds. This money is of oligarchic and Russian origin and was obtained by Leshchenko for a smear campaign against me. And we're talking about much larger sums here."

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