{"id":312219,"date":"2025-08-02T15:17:11","date_gmt":"2025-08-02T15:17:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/312219\/"},"modified":"2025-08-02T15:17:11","modified_gmt":"2025-08-02T15:17:11","slug":"home-of-former-deputy-head-of-zelenskyys-office-searched-by-german-police-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/312219\/","title":{"rendered":"Home of former deputy head of Zelenskyy\u2019s office searched by German police \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>He held the post until September of last year, when his dismissal was announced ahead of a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/ukrainian-president-volodymyr-zelenskyy-backlash-government-reshuffle-opposition-war-in-ukraine\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">major reshuffle<\/a> of Zelenskyy\u2019s Cabinet. He relocated to the Bavarian town of Starnberg shortly thereafter.<\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pravda.com.ua\/news\/2025\/07\/25\/7523363\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ukrainska Pravda<\/a>, reports of the NABU-requested search of Shurma\u2019s home angered the Ukrainian president, who objected to the \u201cinternational scale\u201d its investigations were taking. The publication claimed the development was a major factor in Zelenskyy\u2019s decision to sign a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/zelenskyy-ukraine-anti-corruption-kyiv-war-russia-nabu-sap\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">controversial law<\/a> placing the anti-corruption agency under executive control earlier this month.<\/p>\n<p>The legislation, which gave the country\u2019s presidentially-appointed prosecutor general direct authority over the NABU and the Special Anti-Corruption Prosecutor\u2019s Office, prompted <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/ukraine-protests-volodymyr-zelenskyy-kyiv-power-politics-corruption\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">thousands of demonstrators<\/a> to take to the streets of Kyiv in protest and led leaders in Brussels to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/ursula-von-der-leyen-volodymyr-zelenskyy-europe-ukraine-anti-corruption-watchdog-independence\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">warn<\/a> Zelenskyy that he was putting Ukraine\u2019s EU ambitions in jeopardy.<\/p>\n<p>Chastened by the reactions to the legislation, Zelenskyy sped a bill <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/ukraine-protests-volodymyr-zelenskyy-kyiv-power-politics-corruption\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">returning independence<\/a>\u00a0to the agencies through the country\u2019s parliament and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/ukrainian-parliament-returns-independence-state-watchdogs-volodymyr-zelenskyy-anti-corruption-bill\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">signed it into law<\/a> this past Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>NABU has charged\u00a071 current and former Ukrainian MPs with corruption and has not shied away from investigating members of Zelenskyy\u2019s inner circle.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"He held the post until September of last year, when his dismissal was announced ahead of a major&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":312220,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7654],"tags":[2575,2000,299,657,2601],"class_list":{"0":"post-312219","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ukraine","8":"tag-corruption","9":"tag-eu","10":"tag-europe","11":"tag-ukraine","12":"tag-volodymyr-zelenskyy"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114959839771481082","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312219","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=312219"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312219\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/312220"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=312219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=312219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=312219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}