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Independent journalist Kirilo Amursk\u00ee told French station BFMTV that NABU investigators eventually managed to enter the parliamentary headquarters. The State Security Department clarified that it did not oppose the raid on the parliamentary headquarters, but the procedure required, under martial law, a thorough check of all persons brought by investigators as witnesses.<br \/>\nNABU did not specify whether it made arrests in this new corruption scandal, which emerged immediately after Ukrainian President Volodimir Zelenski left for Florida to meet his American counterpart Donald Trump on Sunday.<br \/>\nThe previous corruption scandal, related to the embezzlement of nearly 100 million dollars in the energy sector, led to the resignation of two ministers and the head of the Presidential Administration Office, Andrii Iermak. 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