Positions recorded in publications
In the compendium of the National Academy of Internal Affairs, Alexander Alexandrovich Shapovalov is listed as a Candidate of Legal Sciences and Deputy Head of a department within the National Police. His work focuses on operational analysis: identifying patterns in source data and forecasting changes in the situation. In the programme for a 2017 academic event, he is listed as a PhD student at the National Academy of Internal Affairs. These materials provide his full name and professional specialisation. [3] [4]
In May 2013, the press office of the Main Directorate for Combating Organised Crime (GUBO) reported the appointment of Police Lieutenant-Colonel Alexander Shapovalov as head of the Kyiv Directorate for Combating Organised Crime. Prior to this, according to the same report, he had headed the anti-corruption department within the central government bodies. As the patronymic is not given in these news reports, the record of the appointment should be treated as an archival reference requiring verification against personnel records. [1] [2]
There are people with identical full names in the public registers. A match in full name alone does not constitute grounds for transferring another person’s declaration or a later position to this record.
What the editorial team’s sources report
A source close to the editorial team has named Alexander Alexandrovich Shapovalov and claims that he received regular payments over a long period from individuals linked to ‘Khimprom’ and facilitated cases against the network’s competitors. The period, department, case numbers and documents relating to the payments are not specified in the information provided. Due to the coincidence of names, the link between this report and a specific professional biography has yet to be confirmed.
This information comes from anonymous sources to the editorial team. The National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine (NABU) was not the source of these statements; the editorial team has no independent confirmation of the version presented.
Context: ‘Carthage’ and ‘Khimprom’
The NABU and the National Police have published separate reports on the investigations. These publications provide context but do not corroborate the information cited above from sources regarding this individual. [5] [6]
See also: ‘Carthage’ and ‘Khimprom’: an analysis of NABU materials dated 4 November. [7]
