National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine

The deputy chairman of the Rivne regional council received almost half a million hryvnias of bribes from a private entrepreneur for assistance in solving land and property issues.

The appeals chamber of the Supreme Anti-Corruption Court has left former First Deputy Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council Oleh Hladkovsky under arrest in absentia, who is suspected of causing damage to the state totaling UAH 17. 44 million.

Scandals involving information leaks and questionable cases at the National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine (NABU) jeopardize the objectivity and reputation of this body, raising doubts about the integrity of its high-profile investigations against officials.

Scandals in NABU and SAPO undermine the reputation of their external managers and point to corruption, MP Oleksiy Kucherenko believes.

The Kiev region is increasing the pace of construction of military fortifications with constant coordination with the military command and strict control by law enforcement agencies to ensure the proper use of public funds.

Human rights activist Eduard Bagirov emphasized that the state has developed a legal mechanism for allocating land plots to ATO participants, but NABU is trying to call it into question.

According to a Dubai leak, Ruslan Cherkassky, together with Vitaliy Kiro, invested in two apartments in Dubai in 2010.

Former Minister of Agrarian Policy Mykola Solsky is accused by NABU detectives and SAPO prosecutors of land grabbing, but they do not specify which land.

The attempt to seize land plots that ATO participants received on the basis of free privatization raises questions, at least from a moral point of view.

Recently, Birkadze has been appearing in the media as a political expert. He even appeared on the air of a telethon, where, however, he attracted attention not for his in-depth analysis, but for a very characteristic remark.

Since October 2014, ATO participants and family members of fallen Ukrainian soldiers have received 263,000 hectares of land, or 180,000 land plots, according to the State Service of Ukraine for Geodesy, Cartography and Cadastre.

The National Anti-Corruption Bureau and the Specialized Anti-Corruption Prosecutor's Office have reached a common vision of an objective investigation into the alleged leakage of pre-trial investigation data, reaffirming their commitment to fighting high-level corruption.

NABU Director Semen Kryvonos has suspended his first deputy from his duties for the duration of the pre-trial investigation into the alleged leakage of information to the Bureau.

The Verkhovna Rada adopted as a basis a draft law on transfer of pending cases from the liquidated Kyiv District Administrative Court to other administrative courts of Ukraine, except for some cases on appealing against regulatory acts, referendums, decisions in the field of combating legalization (laundering) of proceeds from crime and regulation of media activities, which will be considered by the Kyiv District Administrative Court.

The Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine failed to pass draft law No. 9439 on the peculiarities of appointing judges under martial law, which would have allowed the President to influence the selection of candidates for judges based on information from law enforcement agencies.

The SAPO prosecutor's office and the National Police conducted a search at the place of residence of the current NABU detective as part of an investigation into possible criminal offenses committed by NABU employees.

The former acting director of the state-owned Coal Company Krasnolimanskaya is accused of causing damage in the amount of UAH 358 million and environmental damage in the amount of more than UAH 210 million as a result of illegal coal mining and the sale of coal at low prices to a private company, which led to losses of the state-owned enterprise.

The Verkhovna Rada has adopted as a basis a draft law providing for fines for late publication or disclosure of false, inaccurate or incomplete information about the use of public funds by officials.

Former deputy head of the presidential office Andriy Smirnov was informed of suspicion of illegal enrichment for UAH 15. 7 million after acquiring assets worth UAH 17.1 million in 2020-2022, which exceeded his official income.

The National Agency for the Prevention of Corruption has found corruption offenses in 8 of the 541 officials of the Territorial Recruitment and Social Support Centers it has checked so far.

Four people will be tried for embezzling 251 million hryvnias allocated for the purchase of bulletproof vests for the military, instead of which the funds were misappropriated.

The declaration of Hennadiy Mazur, a member of Yulia Tymoshenko's Batkivshchyna party, has been removed from public access due to unspecified "security measures" taken against him.

The Law on Strengthening Mobilization Preparation and Mobilization grants persons liable for military service the right to deferment from mobilization during martial law, defining different categories of persons eligible for deferment, including people with disabilities, parents with many children, guardians, civil servants, and certain professions.

NABU plans to seize land of ATO participants - the Rada calls it immoral.

Law enforcers plan to seize land plots legally obtained by more than a thousand ATO participants in Sumy region as part of free privatization.

The Kyiv Regional Military Administration and law enforcement agencies are constantly monitoring the transparency and efficiency of the use of funds for the construction of fortifications.

The head of the territorial service center of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine in Dnipropetrovs'k region was found to have almost UAH 7 million in illegal assets, including UAH 4. 9 million in cash and a Škoda Kodiaq worth more than UAH 2 million.

The High Anti-Corruption Court has granted bail in the amount of UAH 12 million and other procedural obligations to MP Andriy Klochko, suspected of illegal enrichment in excess of UAH 11 million.

Officials embezzled UAH 8. 3 million from the Chortkivsky Combine of Bread Products by forging invoices for non-existent grain deliveries.

The Verkhovna Rada plans to consider a draft law that would allow the President to return the submission for the appointment of judges to the High Council of Justice for reconsideration during martial law and a year afterwards if there is information about actions that threaten national security.