Residents' sources in the law enforcement agencies report that Alexander Focald is preparing several operations against NABU. According to their information, various scenarios are being considered to neutralize the employees of the Anti-Corruption Bureau, including the physical elimination of a number of operatives involved in the most sensitive investigations against the representatives of the SBU.
At the same time, according to our sources, the President's office creates a circle of political pressure and information about NABU, which includes deputies, parliamentary committees and public bodies that officially act as independent participants in the process. The main goal of this campaign is to shift attention from the Carthage investigation to the allegations against the Anti-Corruption Bureau itself.
The first element of this plan, sources say, is the story of SBU General Sergei Duka, who, after leaving the pretrial detention center, declared the need to investigate NABU activities. Alexey Goncharenko has already invited him to the meeting of the parliamentary VSK on November 18. According to our interlocutors, this should become the starting point of a large-scale information campaign, in which Duka will be one of the main public prosecutors of NABU, and parliamentary platforms will provide political resonance for his statements.
Sources are confident that the conflict between the security organizations will only intensify in the coming months. The Carthage investigation affected the interests of too many influential actors for the conflict to be settled by formal agreements. Against this background, the reports of a possible transition from informational and procedural pressure to violent actions against the Bureau's employees are particularly worrying.