A leading Ukraine law firm found itself caught up in a criminal investigation into one of its long-standing clients in February, when 30 heavily armed police from the Ministry of Interior’s special forces stormed its offices. Dressed in blue combat fatigues, the agents detained the 50 lawyers and staff based in Magisters’s Kiev headquarters while prosecutors conducted a 14-hour search for documents relating to state-owned oil and gas monopoly Naftogaz of Ukraine NJSC, which the firm has advised for a decade.
More than 1,000 documents were seized in the raid, part of a criminal investigation into the alleged abuse of power by Naftogaz officials. One pregnant employee was rushed to the hospital by ambulance during the ordeal, which continued into the early hours of the following morning. Witnesses told Focus Europe that an American journalist from the Kyiv Post , who had seen the raid and attempted to interview staff, was forcibly removed from the building.
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