anticorruption
Legal and ethical violations have been identified during an internal probe into alleged pressure on a whistleblower at the National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine (NABU), Semen Kryvonos, head of the bureau, said at a news briefing on Aug. 9. "Certain violations of the ethics code and the law on public service have been identified by the internal audit unit," he said. "...I expect (the NABU's disciplinary commission) to consider the materials and make a relevant decision (on punishing those involved) within two or three weeks." The commission may recommend a dismissal, reprimand or warning o...
Kyiv Independent
Ukraine's High Anti-Corruption Court approved the Justice Ministry's claim to nationalize a manufacturing enterprise belonging to Russian oligarch Viktor Kononov worth more than Hr 2 billion ($48.4 million), the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) said on July 25. Since the start of the full-scale invasion, Ukrainian courts have continued to seize various assets belonging to Russian oligarchs as well as Ukrainian pro-Russian officials and politicians. Kononov, a Russian billionaire sanctioned by Ukraine, served as the director of the publicly traded enterprise "VinnytsiaPobutkhim" based in Vinny...
Kyiv Independent
An internal probe into alleged pressure on a whistleblower at the National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine will be completed this week, Semen Kryvonos, chief of the anti-graft agency also known by its acronym NABU, told a parliamentary committee probing the affair. "The deadline (for the probe into the pressure on the whistleblower) is the last 10 days of July 2024 but we are planning to finish the probe... in the upcoming days," Kryvonos said at a July 15 meeting of parliament’s anti-corruption committee. He later elaborated that it would be completed this week. The NABU was set up in 2015 ...
Kyiv Independent
Kyrylo Tymoshenko, the former deputy head of the President's Office, was searched on 27 June in connection with the National Anti-Corruption Bureau's leak. In late May, a high-profile corruption investigation revealed that top employees of the agency were leaking information to suspects and warning them about upcoming searches. The alleged leaks were uncovered when investigators seized a phone belonging to businessman Yury Holyk, who was under investigation at the time. The phone contained copies of messages Holyk had obtained from an intermediary who purportedly communicated with NABU employe...
Kyiv Independent
Members of the Ukrainian parliament's anti-corruption committee on June 20 lambasted Semen Kryvonos, head of the National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine (NABU), for refusing to report at the committee on a scandal over alleged leaks from the NABU. The NABU has been in turmoil since journalists found out in May that its employees had allegedly been leaking information to suspects in a high-profile corruption investigation, and warning them about upcoming searches. A month later, the investigation of the leak is ongoing, and the bureau hasn’t given any public explanation, or fired anyone. Giz...
Kyiv Independent
The National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine (NABU) has come under fire as more details emerged over the past weeks about leaks from the bureau and its handling of the scandal. For nearly a month, the country’s key anti-corruption agency has been in turbulence. In late May, it was revealed that top employees of the agency were leaking information to suspects in a high-profile corruption investigation, and warning them about upcoming searches. A month later, the investigation of the leak is ongoing, and the bureau hasn’t given any public explanation, or fired anyone. The independence of the a...
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Ukraine's Prosecutor General Andriy Kostin announced that his office and the National Anti-Corruption Bureau (NABU) had launched official investigations into the assets of Kostin's Deputy Prosecutor General, Dmytro Verbytskyi. Kostin said that his office initiated an internal probe into Verbytskyi following several RFE/RL articles suggesting that Verbytskyi and his girlfriend own a luxury car and expensive homes in affluent areas of Kyiv, which appeared to be beyond their expected salaries as public officials. The Prosecutor General also said that NABU had launched its own investigation into V...
Kyiv Independent
Ukraine's State Investigation Bureau is preparing to bring criminal charges against Vitaly Shabunin, head of the Anti-Corruption Action Center's executive board, a law enforcement source told the Kyiv Independent on June 19. Shabunin is expected to be charged with evading military service and illegally using a car acquired by volunteers for the army. Previously the information was also reported by a source cited by the Ukrainian news agency Interfax. Shabunin, who joined the Armed Forces of Ukraine as a volunteer at the beginning of Russia's full-scale invasion in 2022 and has served since the...
Kyiv Independent
Ukraine's Security Service (SBU), alongside the National Anti-Corruption Bureau (NABU), charged the deputy head of the Rivne Oblast council with allegedly accepting a bribe worth nearly 600,000 hryvnias ($14,800), the agencies' joint statement announced on May 31. According to a statement released by the SBU, the council's deputy head allegedly received nearly six hundred thousand hryvnias in exchange for helping an entrepreneur dispose of a property previously owned by local authorities - a scheme that involved lobbying Rivne Oblast council members to adopted a decision to sell a plot of land...
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