corruption

Acting President of the National Aviation University in Kyiv Volodymyr Kharchenko was detained as he received €170,000 bribe.

In February 2016 the partner of Dmytro Vovk, Chief of the National Commission for State Regulation of Energy and Public Utilities bought real estate in Kyivska Oblast worth $1.5-2 million

Artem Sytnyk, the Head of the National Anti-Corruption Bureau, expects attempts to discredit his agency in the media in the nearest months, he said in an interview to Ukrayinska Pravda

A total of 20 persons applied for the post of the Chief of the National Agency for the Management of Seized Assets.

It is Manafort, to whom the Party of Regions owes most of their slogans and political rhetoric, including ‘dangerous NATO’ and ‘suppression of the Russian language in Ukraine’, which artificially divided the country, alienated some people in Russian-speaking eastern Ukraine and may have helped sow the seeds of the war in Donbas.

Ex-Deputy Prosecutor of Kyivska Oblast Oleksandr Korniets paid £120,000 for his daughter Anastasia’s studies in the UK.

Officials of a state-run company in Chernihivska Oblast transferred ₴1.8 million ($72,000) to private companies to build fortifications on the Ukraine-Russia border (the so-called ‘The Wall’ project), but the necessary construction was not completed.

NABU Chief Artem Sytnyk claimed during a press-conference on Monday that the SBU proceeding against an NABU employee with regard to alleged unlawful moonlighting was nonsense.

SBU claims to have uncovered corruption at the National Anti-Corruption Bureau, as head of one of the departments there was also earning money at another organization.

Judge of Dniprovskyi District Court of Kyiv Mykola Chaus, who is suspected of taking a bribe, did not come to a scheduled meeting at the National Anti-Corruption Bureau (NABU), the Special Anti-Corruption Prosecutor's Office press office told Ukrayinska Pravda.

President Petro Poroshenko claims that the mandatory electronic declaration of the property and funds of state officials will be launched on August 15 as planned.

A Judge of the Dnipro District Court of Kyiv was caught taking a bribe totaling $150,000 (about ₴3.7 million), alleges a NABU press service report.

Transparency International Ukraine (TIU) supports the idea of paying whistleblowers 10% of the money stolen by a corruption offender which is returned to the state.

Ex-Prosecutor General Viktor Shokin, who was dismissed in March, has a wealthy common-law wife and a child not specified as family members in his assets declaration.

Kyiv Prosecutor’s Office investigators and SBU officers are conducting searches in Boryspil airport.

NABU detectives arrested the Head of the Department of Procurement Planning and Control of Ukrainian Railways (UZ).

Prosecutor General Yuriy Lutsenko requested the Prime Minister to initiate an internal investigation with regard to Interior Minister Arsen Avakov’s failure to report his conflict of interest when the Ministry investigated the case of Avakov’s business partner Igor Kotvitskyi.

Solomianskyi District Court of Kyiv provided NABU detectives access to the accounts and documents of Alfa Bank and Credit Agricole with regard to investigation of withdrawal of $40 million from Ukraine by People’s Front MP Igor Kotvitskyi.

Former Deputy Head of the Prosecutor General’s office Vitaliy Kasko claims that Pavlo Demchyna, who was appointed the new Deputy Head of the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) by President Petro Poroshenko, is involved in corruption.