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Volodymyr Zhovnir, CEO of the Okhmatdyt children's hospital in Kyiv, was suspended until all inspections related to the hospital's reconstruction are completed, Health Minister Viktor Liashko said on Aug. 17. Okhmatdyt, Ukraine's largest children's medical center, was hit during a Russian missile attack on July 8 that killed two people and injured over 30. One of the hospital's buildings was completely destroyed, while another, the biggest and most advanced one which, reportedly, accounts for up to 95% of the hospital’s functions, was damaged. Following the strike, more than Hr 1 billion ($24 ...
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Ukraine's deputy energy minister Oleksandr Kheil was arrested on corruption charges, the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) reported on Aug. 12. While the SBU said only that a deputy energy minister had been arrested and did not mention Kheil by name, Ukrainska Pravda soon confirmed that he was the individual in question. The official portal of Ukraine's Cabinet of Ministers later reported that Kheil had been dismissed from his position. According to the SBU, Kheil allegedly demanded bribes from representatives of a state-owned coal company to facilitate the transfer of mining equipment from ne...
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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...
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Ukrainians consider the customs, Ukraine's parliament, and the Cabinet of Ministers to be the most corrupt institutions, according to a survey by the National Democratic Institute and the Kyiv International Institute for Sociology (KIIS) released on Aug. 1. The results indicate that despite anti-graft reforms undertaken since the EuroMaidan Revolution in 2014, Ukrainians still believe corruption is prevalent in the highest state bodies. Respondents were asked to name three spheres or institutions where corruption is most prevalent. Some 51% of respondents named customs, while 48% mentioned the...
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Vladimir Pavlov, the head of the Russian military's clothing and food supplier Voentorg, was detained on fraud charges, law enforcement officials reported on Aug. 1. Since April, several high-ranking military officials have been arrested on charges ranging from bribery to abuse of power after the dismissal of Russian Deputy Defense Minister Timur Ivanov. Russia's Interior Ministry spokesperson Irina Vovk claimed that Voentorg's general director "entered into a criminal conspiracy" with several other individuals to sell toiletries to the military at inflated prices. Vovk did not mention the nam...
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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...
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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 ...
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A building materials factory owned by the brothers of former pro-Russian Ukrainian lawmakers, Viktor Medvedchuk and Taras Kozak, was officially transferred to the Ukrainian state on June 28, the State Security Service (SBU) announced in a statement. The factory, owned by Serhii Medvedchuk and Bohdan Kozak, was seized by Ukraine's Agency for Investigation and Management of Assets (ARMA) along with four SUVs, and "several pieces of specialized equipment." Both men were charged in absentia with defrauding the state of Hr 75 million ($1.8 million) in taxes on June 10. The property, which is locate...
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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...
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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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