Police are treating as arson a fire that yesterday burned down the house of Vitaliy Shabunin, head of the Anti-Corruption Action Center

Police are treating as arson a fire that yesterday burned down the house of Vitaliy Shabunin, head of the Anti-Corruption Action Center, an influential NGO. No one was injured, as the only people at home at the time, Shabunin’s parents, escaped uninjured. A frequent source for foreign press stories about corruption in Ukraine, Shabunin gave a press conference in front of his ruined home, naming three different businessmen as possible suspects. In recent years, demonstrations in front of his house have been organized by officers of the State Security Service and the National Police. Last month, President Zelenskiy dropped Shabunin from the National Council for Anti-Corruption Policy, an advisory body.