KYIV, July 19 – The National Anti-corruption Bureau of Ukraine (NABU) is conducting a raid in the central office of the ICU investment group in Kyiv, the company said it had fully satisfied all NABU requests for information before, and regards these investigative actions "as an attempt to put pressure which has an explicit political context."

"ICU sees that behind this political pressure is discontent of the current authorities and their allies with the reforms carried out by their predecessors, some of which had previously worked for ICU," the company said on Friday.